Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 34: what you’re looking at

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26 “IT WONDER IF YOU ARE THAT MAN.” place, of an eccentric lady known as Miss Estelle Gordon.’’ ‘Why, that must be auntie!”’ “Fh? Do you mean to say you live at the place known as Hawk’s Nest ?”’ ‘“Certainly—I am a niece of Miss Estelle Gordon, and you have come all the way from New York——”’’ ‘To see the lady—yes. What a singular fate, what a blessed fate, let me add, that threw me in the way of her niece.”? ‘“All the way from New York,’’ the girl repeats. ‘“‘T wonder if you are that man.”’ CONNIE OOOKS (EO) L/L Ss)