Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 56: what you’re looking at

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45 THE GIRL WHO DARED. The two shadowy figures put their heads close together; in vain does he strain his hearing; it is impossible to catch even a word, so that he must de- pend more upon their actions than anything else in order to get at the root of their trouble. They move away, following the wall of the wooden building, but he does not believe it is their intention to leave the premises. Just as he is about to follow, Bob’s keen ears catch what seems to be the closing of a door, though the sound is so faint that it can hardly be distinguished from the soughing of the wind in the pines. Half believing he must have made a mistake, he starts on, when he sees a movement just ahead, as though one of the couple has dropped behind, or else a new figure came into the game. Then some one must have.come out of the house. Bob looks closer, as a sudden suspicion flashes into his brain, and then under his breath he exclaims: “Tt must be Gypsy !’’ He notes that the figure is small; if a man he wears a long black cloak, but Bob has full confidence that his first guess 1s right. It would be just like the girl, too; she has the qualities of a heroine in her composition, and in any emergency would be found taking a leading part. His interest increases, for he feels that he may yet be called upon to defend her. A unique chase it is, each party ignorant of the fact that another follows—a chase that is bound to end in some climax. The two men, having arrived at that part of the Gomichooksscom