Bob Younger's Fate — page 129: what you’re looking at

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120 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. ‘< “Wishes to see me? Surely you must be mis- taken.’ | “ ‘No, I am not. Any one will do, but I want you to come.’ “Bob took a sudden resolution. «Very well; I’ll go with you.’ ‘Bob followed the stranger into the abode of the supposed dying man, and found it a most miserable place. | “Onabed of straw lay an old man evidently in the last stages of disease. He looked up eagerly as the two entered. “ “T am glad you got him,’ he murmured. ‘I can’t keep up much longer.’ “What does he want with me?’ asked Bob, look- ing somewhat perplexed. “< “1711 tell you,’ said the old man. ‘I am a miser, and have been one all my life, starving myself to lay up a fortune. JI am now dying, but the fortune I’ve saved, though it will go to a stranger at last. In a strong box I have placed more than a hun- dred thousand dollars, and I desire it to be given to the only relative I have, if he is hving. I don’t want the case to get into the courts, or the lawyers will divide the money among themselves. I would like to have two men, honest ones at that, to hunt up this relative, and deliver the fortune to him with- out any one else knowing anything aboutit. Dr. Hinds is aman I can trust, and I want you to help him. Ill allow you a thousand dollars apiece if you give the rest to my nephew.’ ‘* “But where is he?’ asked Younger. “ *Ah, I have no idea. I only know. that his fa- ther, who was my only brother, died many years ago, and that» we had no connections far or near outside of our two families. My brother’s wife was not long following her husband; and their boy, my nephew, was thus left without a friend in the world, for even I, his own flesh and blood, would then in my greed have refused him a home. I have: not heard of him since that time, thirteen years ago. I ~ want you to find him, and make reparation by giv- GOMIGEDOOKS: Go