Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 83: what you’re looking at

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ON THE ROAD TO DENVER. 75 ‘Yes, on a horse I gave her, as my respected aunt. But, even granted that you did hear a galloping horse, why should that make you think she had: left Hawk’s Nest ?”? ‘‘Ah! I have a secret, too. I have certain facts that give me that impression. ”’ ‘‘Do you mean to keep it from me?”? ‘‘On the contrary, I am only too anxious to confide it to you.”’ ‘There is no time like the present. Come, sir, sit down here, and I will play.the Father Confessor.”’ ‘Only too willingly would I forever breathe my fears and secret longings in the ears of such a con- fessor,’’ he says, boldly, but she only laughs. ‘Please confine your remarks to what concerns us at present,’’ she says. So he tells of the remarkable incident that befell him while endeavoring to find his room on the pre- vious night, after leaving her. .Gypsy smiles at his confusion when admitting his blunder—he had been so confident, as he left her, that he could retrace his passage. 3 ‘“‘T understand, now,’’ she declares, when he has concluded the wonderful story, ‘‘what she meant in her note—you were the circumstances she feared,” and then she produces the note in question, which Josephine left in her room. He reads: | ‘“‘Miss Gypsy GORDON :—Since saying good-night, circumstances have arisen that tell me the truth is probably known to you. My plans have, thus far, failed—I hardly know what the future holds for us Gomicbookssxcom