Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 136: what you’re looking at

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128 THE FLIGHT OF THE EAST-BOUND EXPRESS. So they enter a vehicle in waiting near by, and are carried to the station. Denver will soon be left behind, and a new era in their affairs open up. CHAPTER XV. THE FLIGHT OF THE EAST-BOUND EXPRESS. When the East-bound night express pulls out of Denver, those whose fortunes we have followed are sungly settled in the through sleeper, Bob and his wife have the stateroom and Senator John has secured a berth near by. _ He takes a stroll through the train—says it is his usual custom, and yet Bob knows full well he has some particular thought in view. When he comes into the comfortable stateroom a little later, the train is bowling along at a rapid rate, and the night air proves quite chilly. | Senator John smiles to see the tender solicitudd with which Bob tucks a heavy traveling shawl around the little form of his wife, but it is a smile of deep satisfaction, for under his breath the Senator is saying: ‘“Would to Heaven they could always be just as happy as they are now—that no shadow would come between them; but I know that is impossible, for trouble comes sooner or later to all. With such love Gomicbooksseom