Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 166: what you’re looking at

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158 A FIGHT WITH FORTUNE. the meeting with Rudolph Gordon, and his trip to the West. Other events follow—he is a fairly good narrator and the subject is such that he can do justice to it. Joe is thrilled. ‘‘Ouite a romance—and to think how neatly you played your part in securing a wife. Well, I quite envy you, Bob, seeing that you are happy. Take me to Mrs. Pemberton.”’’ ‘On one condition, sir.’? ‘“Well,’’ repeats Hooker, ‘‘what is the condition on which you will allow one to meet your wife ?”’ ‘“That you don’t fall in love with her,’’ says Bob. Joe Hooker laughs. ‘To confess the truth, my dear boy, I’m afraid I have received an electric shock under my vest from a blue-eyed battery. You see she moaned so pitifully, and clung to me when I carried her, that it quite touched my heart——’’ ‘*Nonsense—never knew one more tender. In plain English, Joe, you’ve jumped into love. Well, it’s a common fate when one Bob Pemberton gets into the mess. Say no more, but come with me.”’ ‘“To Mrs. Bob’’—they all fall so naturally into this habit of op pe her by that name. °6 Ves. ) ‘See here, do you want me to tell her all?” ““Rverything.”’ ‘‘But she is a woman—a feeling of horror might come over her—she might faint fy _ **Come—you are speaking of no ordinary milk and water woman. Gypsy Gordon never winced when she CONNIE MOOKS.COn