The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 123: what you’re looking at

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114 THE TWIN DETECTIVES. Hall was terribly jealous of every one who admired Jean, and he was also very nervous about talking to strangers. ~ McLean, however, was hard to manage. He was a man who had been accustomed to working hard all his life. Now he was idle, and time hung heavy on his hands. He was not much of a reader, and did not know what to do with himself. . So he got into the way of going out with the amiable drummer. “Tl show you ew York,” he said, and he kept his word. McLean was cautious, but the adroit Bob Brierly managed to obtain a good deal of information from him. If Hall had been aware how much McLean was in the supposed drummer’s society, he would have been seriously alarmed, but he was not. Jean received no answer to her letter from Mrs. Hall, and she felt uneasy about her. Brody had never alluded to their interview that night, but he was remarkably kind to Jean. ‘JT wonder why she does not write,” the girl said to her- self a hundred times a day. Hall had been rather cool and distant with Jean, and she had taken no notice of his displeasure. He was often in company with her father, and Jean spent much of her time in her own room. They had been in New York over a month, and they said nothing about any change. Sometimes they seemed gloomy, and at other times more hopeful. Jean was making up her mind to go and pay Mrs. tall a visit, when one evening Brody tapped at her door with a let- ter in his hand. It was addressed as Jean had directed. She thanked Brody, and as soon as he left, shut and locked the door, and sat down to read it. It was very brief, : (E(0) ® Eomicbooks m