Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 122: what you’re looking at

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114 SENATOR JOHN’S SECRET, CHAPTER XIII. SENATOR JOHN’S SECRET. The rest of the day Pemberton spends in making various arrangements. When a man has entered into a compact to marry that very evening it is only nat- ural for him to look around and see that his affairs are in ship-shape condition, at least so far as the hurried nature of the circumstances will admit. He makes arrangements, finds out when the night train leaves for New York, and engages a stateroom in the sleeper, which is pretty good evidence that he means to leave Denver. Senator John is taken into the secret, and proves a valuable coadjutor, for it seems that some one is watching Bob, and he imagines the French lawyer, to make sure of him, has put a man on his track. Several other little things are done calculated to confound the conspirators when they attempt to_ spring their little trap, and as the day declines Bob rests on his oars, satisfied that he has matters just as he wants them. Gypsy is in full touch with him, and enters into the spirit of the affair with increasing vim, as though she really enjoyed it all, so that, in the end, Bob congratulates himself on having such a neat arrange- ment. So night comes, Gomichooksscom