The Yankee Champion — page 181: what you’re looking at

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174 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. At that moment they heard the rustling of Mrs. Goodhue’s tidy dress, and soon they were joined by the dame herself. Gideon soon afterward came into the apartment, and so did Luke Soper; but Simon Goodhue came not. ‘Where is our old friend?’’ aod W alter. ‘‘He’s gone away,’ returned the good dame. ‘Then I shall not see him again. However, I sup- pose he had business.’’ “Oh, he may be back before you go, for of course you will stop and take dinner with us?” | ‘‘Perhaps I may.’’ ‘‘Then you will see him again, and perhaps——”’ Mrs. Goodhue stopped and looked at Luke. The latter shook his head in a meaning manner, and nothing more was said. Walter’s curiosity was excited, ae he had too much good sense to ask any questions. rate) ‘i