Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 245: what you’re looking at

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CRAIG HAS IT ALL ARRANGED, 237 The explanations are short, of course, for there is no time to spare, and at some future date they can enter more fully into them. While they are still talking, behold! a knock, a gentle summons announces a visitor without. Bob opens the door. Ah yousyoe Hooker enters. ‘‘T have brought a friend with me,’’ he says. Bob frowns; having just got rid of one outsider, are they to have another tacked on them? He hardly vouchsafes a glance at the party until he hears his wife give a silvery laugh. ‘“How are you again, Mr. Craig ?’’ she says. ‘What!’’ ejaculates Bob, and then he turns his at- tention toward the party in question, and sees a very sanctimonious looking person, with a droll twinkle in his eyes; the lid of the left one having a slight droop to it—and it was this mark which betrayed him to the sharp eyes of Gypsy. Finding his identity no ODES! a secret, Craig laughs as he says: ‘“‘No use trying to hide when a lady’s eyes are on one. Always found that to be the case—fight shy of ’em whenever I can.”’ ‘“We have some news for you, my dear fellow. This stout gentleman whom you have met before, and whom you know as Senator John Archer——’’ “Tet me tell it, Bob,’’ breaks in his wife. “(What if I said I already knew ?’’ grins Craig. ‘The deuce you say!’’ exclaims his friend. ‘Well, there’s enough resemblance, anyhow.”’ Eomichbooksneo in