CHAPTER VII
"MR. BOB"
"If his heart at high floods
Swamped his brain now and then,
'T was but richer for that
When the tide ebbed again."
LARGE audience assembled that night to witness "The Greatest Extravaganza of the Century." The Opera House was a blaze of light and color.
From the recesses of one of the boxes, Redding made a careful survey of the faces beneath him. First nights usually found him there, with the same restless, eager look in his eyes. Tonight he evidently failed to find what he sought, and was turning listlessly
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