Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 258: what you’re looking at

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250 WHICH WILL WIN? change in John, but that eyes which have once loved him can recognize features so well known years gone by. ‘“Knough,’’ says the man behind, grimly, ‘‘the second blow has fallen. Now for a rise in the thermometer—it will get warmer.’’ He chuckles while saying it, as though this sort of business is very pleasant to him, and Bob, in- wardly chafing over the delay, gives no outward indication of the fact. Again he hears: “You have forgotten something, Bob.’’ eh 2»? ‘’These two men—they are here with a deep mo- tive in view. Colonel Cornelius has become des- perate. He believes his father carries those papers on his person, and he has staked everything on this last deal. To-night they must fall into his hands or he sails on the steamer Majestic on the morrow.”’ ‘“Then make up your mind he will be across the big pond a week from to-night,’ says Bob, in such a deterinined voice that the other laughs. ‘Good for you, my dear boy—admire such ginger and snap always. As I said before, he has arranged everything, and expects it to work with clock-like regularity, not taking into account the fact that such fellows as ourselves are in the game and wide awake. ‘Notice them, and you will quickly discover that they are evidently in communication with some other party. It bothered me at first to discover who this was, but I found it out at last. She——”’ ‘“Ah! it’s a woman, then ?’’ com Gbhookstecom —— J