Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 223: what you’re looking at

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LTHE MYSTERIOUS TENANT. 215 BOOK FOUR. Lhe Widow of the Alhambra Flats. CHAPTER XXV. THE MYSTERIOUS TENANT OF THE ALHAMBRA FLATS. Bob has had a little stage training himself, and knows when to halt after reaching a point which might be termed acrisis. So he waits to see what _ effect his announcement will have upon the others. The Senator looks surprised; Joe, who has heard about the actress, and is not a stranger to her, moves uneasily in his seat at mention of her name, while Gypsy shows her woman’s feeling of contempt toward one who had made out to be her rival, by saying: ‘Poor Mr. Craig,’’ and in such a sympathetic man- ner that Bob is compelled to grin before he resumes his narrative. ‘When Craig finds himself face to face with Josephine, his first thought is that she must, in some way, be concerned in the game—you.see, these men of his line are uncommonly bright, and can getat the kernel inside a shell much sooner than most of us. “She takes him for Rudolph Gordon, that is evi- dent, and believes she has an old man to twist around her finger. He plays his part well, and does not. by -any sign betray his double dealing. Gomicbookssco im