Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 108: what you’re looking at

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100 WHAT THE DOCTOR KNEW. pass, for recognition would be a sad thing just. now, when he leads the French lawyer a chase. Who is the colonel, and what business has he med- dling with the affairs of Gypsy Gordon? What was it —Colonel Corneel, the Frenchman called him. [11 remember the name—perhaps Gypsy may recognize it—who knows? | He passes out of the restaurant just in tine to see them drive away in the vehicle that brought the French lawyer to the rendezvous. Bob gives chase again, and sees the colonel landed at an obscure hotel in the old part of the city. Monsieur Merle drops out of sight and Bob finds he has plenty of leisure time to look up the party whom he desires to see. Five minutes after nine he rings the bell of a sober- looking house. A servant answers the summons. ‘“Ts Doctor Hammond at home ??’’ ‘Yes, sah.”? “*Can I see him ?”’ ‘“Walk into de consultation room, sah.”’ So, with little ceremony, Bob is ushered into the presence of aman who is destined to have some- thing to do with his fortunes. Heis a pretty good reader of character as stamped upon the human face —the education received in the whirl of Wall street is enough to sharpen man’s faculties in this respect at least, and make him more than a professional mind reader. Bob sees aman with a gray head, a thoughtful man, a student, who believes there are always new COMNICOOKS CO