José — page 33: what you’re looking at

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26 JOSE. necessarily unceremonious farewell, but rest assured of the grateful remembrance of | “HIS SISTER.” The young man stood for quite a while as if dazed; then he suddenly turned to the clerk and asked: “How long ago was this note left in your care?” “Scarcely five minutes,” was the reply. “And the lady left the hotel in the care of an escort?” Possibly Baumann’s face betrayed more than he was conscious of; for the clerk, after a brief silence, stepped from behind the counter with an intelligent air, and said in a subdued tone: “You had scarcely left the hotel when a gentle- man entered, dashed off some lines on a piece of paper, and asked me fo send it ‘to the lady who had just arrived,’ The boy returned with a request to have the stranger come to her room, and in about fifteen minutes both came down together. The lady inclosed a note, already prepared, in an envelope and told me to hand it to you aS soon as you re- turned.” Baumann thought a moment. | “Show me the way to the river,” he said. “Straight down there,” directed the clerk. The young man nodded. It was contrary to the direction he had gone before. Without saying a word he started for the river. If she intended to leave the city with her companion, it must be by a Mississippi steamer. He himself did not know what he could possibly accomplish by his pursuit, but felt that. he could not part from her in this manner. She had opened a new world to him, entirely differ- ent from anything he had ever before experienced; Eomichooks co m