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Bob Hampton of Placer

CHAPTER VI
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"Possibly I might discover a substitute somewhere in the room." "Oh, no; I would never think of troubling you to such an extent.

No doubt this feeling of lassitude will pass away shortly.

It was very foolish of me, but I left the fan with my wraps at the hotel.

It can be recovered when we go across to supper." In spite of Miss Spencer's quiet words of renunciation, there was a look of pleading in her shyly uplifted eyes impossible to resist.
Brant promptly surrendered before this masked battery.
"It will be no more than a pleasure to recover it for you," he protested, gallantly.
The stairs leading down from the hall entrance were shrouded in darkness, the street below nearly deserted of loiterers, although lights streamed forth resplendently from the undraped windows of the Occidental and the hotel opposite.

Assisted in his search by Mrs.
Guffy, the officer succeeded in recovering the lost fan, and started to return.


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