Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 243: what you’re looking at

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LOOKING BACKWARD. 235 what I have told you—your are a Gordon on your mother’s side.’’ ‘“Then my name? Oh, Bob, what a delicious state of uncertainty—see, I am trembling in suspense con- cerning it. Tell me—is it Smith ?”’ ‘‘No—you will have to guess again,’’ smiling. ‘“Then Jones. ”’ ‘“We will have to let those two great families pass by, since you do not belong to either.”’ ‘You provoking man! Iam unable to guess—at least tell me the first letter.’ ** Say Ay ) “ Allen—Andrews—Aiken—Archer——”’ ‘6 Ves, >) “FHstelle Gordon Archer. I saw that name once on some paper, by accident, and when I went to look for it again grandfather had hidden it away. It is not—so—yvery odd. Somehow, I like it.” Then she gives a sudden start. ‘Why, Bob, don’t you see, that’s the name of our friend, the Senator.’”’ ‘Vou are quite right, my dear. Becalm. Ihave some very important intelligence to communicate now.”’ ‘“Ves, yes, Bob—support me, there’s a good man. I feel, don’t you know, as though I might faint. These things are very sudden and overpowering.”’ ‘Nonsense, my dear girl, be yourself—that means brave and true. What I have to say is right to the point. John Archer, whom I have long loved as though he were an elder brother, gentle, kind, and affectionate, John Archer is the man,’’ CoOnnicoooks.<coinn —_*»