Bob Younger's Fate — page 107: what you’re looking at

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98 3 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. sympathy would get closer to me than was neces- sary. If he had he would have made a discovery most fatal to us, for he has the eyes of a hawk.’’ ‘Suppose he had; wouldn’t he still be willing to sion in order to save his own life? A man,:when it comes to a pinch, will do almost anything to stave off death.’’ “Not so with Howard. I must say that while he has been blinded in this matter by his friendship for me, he is of an unusually penetrating and superior as well as determined mind. He would never, under such circumstances as these, submit were the pun- ishment directed toward himself instead of some one else.’’ _“T wonder what keeps the Queen to-night. ”’ ‘There she is now; I hear her at the door.’’ The next moment [rene Trainer entered the apart- — ment. ‘“‘How go things?’ she inquired, gayly. ‘‘Is our handsome prisoner as refractory as ever?”’ ‘‘No, he has at last given in.”’ ‘Good! Has he yet signed the paper?’’ “No; he refuses to do so until he has had the par- ticulars of the way in which the fortune came to him.’ “Has that been done?” : ~“No; we have decided to leave that pleasant part of the programme to you.’” “Most excellent judgment and forethought! Shall I give him a straight story, or will it be best to_inter- sperse the truth with a pleasant bit of fiction. He’ll never get out of this place to cause any trouble.’’ ‘Don’t be too sure of that.. It begins to look com- paratively safe now, but. we must not take it for cEomicbooks (E(0) m