Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 66: what you’re looking at

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58 TOLD UNDER THE MOON. astray. Io my knowledge, I have never harmed her. The bitter feeling she cherishess comes from another source. I will briefly relate it. ‘’The fortune that is in my hands came to me through my mother—there was a sad mistake, and a certain woman whom I shall call Josephine believed for a year that all was hers. Then my lawyers put in a claim, the proofs were overwhelming, and I came into possession of the Armitage estate. ‘“‘T felt sorry for Josephine, and even offered her a share of the property, but she spurned it, and de- clared she would have all or none. Asa side issue, a foolish young man to whom she was engaged thought he was in love with me. I laughed at him and sent him back to her, but she hates me doubly on account of his foolish fancy. ‘There, in a nutshell, you have the reason of her animosity. She does not seek my life—I have never believed so, at least—but I know Josephine would rejoice at the loss of my fortune, or some accident that would disfigure my face for hire? ““Has she attempted that?’ exclaimed Bob Pemberton. “Tam ashamed of my sex when I declare, deliber- ately, that I fear it is so. On one occasion, a girl in my employ, while in Denver, was led, by some unhappy fate, to wear a dress of mine—at the time I was away. In the street some inan threw vitriol in her face, and she was horribly disfigured for life.’ ‘“What a fiend passion makes of its victims,’’ said Bob, aghast at her recital. ‘You see what I have to fight against.’? = Gomicbookssco im