Bob Younger's Fate — page 109: what you’re looking at

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100 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. Here he paused again to listen for any possible noise in the kitchen or elsewhere. Hecould hear the movement of a person in the -room overhead, and at once concluded to reach that - point. Beside the room he was occupying ran a hall in which commenced a flight of stairs. He made his way immediately, but in a perfectly noiseless manner, to the foot of the stairs, and be- gan the ascent. When half way up he heard the murmur of voices, but could not Pea the tones or the words. He at last had reached the top without the faint- est indication of a sound to show his presence. A small room stood on a level with the landing, and by the side of this was a larger apartment, in which were seated aman and a woman engaged in a low conversation. “T must hear what, they are saying,’ he mut- tered, ‘‘and I can’t evidently get into that room. Now, how shall I arrange the affair?”’ Where he was standing he could see not the per- sons but their reflection in a mirror. Had they been facing the mirror, they, in like manner, would have been able to see his image. The window nearest the smaller room he could see was raised somewhat; could ‘he reach it from the outside he would be able to hear almost everything they said. He stepped past the half open door into the little room. and the next moment had raised the window. Peering outside he was rejoiced to find that each of the lower windows had a projecting cap suffi- ciently large to stand upon, could he but reach it. The next point was to place himself in the desired Eomicbooks (e(e) mi