" Bobby's squad included Bettywho had refused to leave her chumthe Guerin girls (who refused to go to Edentown because it was almost impossible to avoid spending money for little luxuries and for treats), Constance Howard and Dora Estabrooke, a fat girl who was good-nature itself.

This had to content the Tucker twin who took Bobby's chaffing good-humoredly.

There was not an atom of envy in Bobby's character, and she thought Betty the most wonderful actress she had ever seen.

" She took Bobby's hand.

As usual his expression disclosed nothing of his thoughts, yet he must have read in Bobby's tone a reproach at this indifference.

Or" Bobby's face must have told him a good deal, for he broke off.

Bobby's eyes were on the road.

He was about to make some formal comment to the others, to embark on his distasteful adventure, when Paredes, as if he had read Bobby's mind, opened his eyes, languidly left his chair, and walked to the foot of the stairs.

There was nothing more to be said, but Bobby's doubt of his friend, sown by Graham and stimulated by the incidents of the last hour, was materially strengthened.

Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch.

" A vague discomfort stole through Bobby's surprise.

"I don't know what you mean, but you have told us all that you are Bobby's friend.

But it was clear Bobby's amazement had not been lost on him.

Moreover, Bobby's description of the stranger who had entered the cafe with her merely suggested a type familiar to the Tenderloin.

Graham made no attempt to conceal his real interest, the impulse at the back of all his efforts in Bobby's behalf.

The persistence of their regard even after Bobby's entrance suggested to him that the evidence remained secreted, that the officers, under the circumstances, were scarcely interested in his return.

His black clothing, relieved only by narrow edges of white cuffs between the sleeves and the heavy mourning gloves, fitted with solemn harmony into the landscape and Bobby's mood.

It passed from Bobby's sight.

" Bobby's assurance of Paredes's innocence clouded his own situation; made it, in a sense, more dangerous than it had ever been.

I have time after time stated the fact that I was here in Bobby's service.

Then suddenly, as his eye caught what he considered a suspicious movement of Bobby's hand as he placed a card close to Lady Deppingham's fingers: "Demme, II'd rather he

It is poured into Bobby's soup-plate, and we have thrown up the window-sashes, and set it on the ledge to cool.

cry I, briskly, putting my arm through his, in anxious amends for Bobby's hapless speech.

(with a timely reminiscence of Bobby's happy flight of imagination).

His style of dancing is, indeed, very like Bobby's.