Bob Younger's Fate — page 167: what you’re looking at

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158 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. | seated at the front door; the very men who had ab- - ducted her. Escape in that direction was cut off. Back she turned, sick at heart, and passed slowly down the stairs, determined to search for a different exit, but at that moment she heard a succession of shouts from the party she was just attempting to avoid, and doubted not that she had been discovered. She waited not an instant, however, aS every sec- ond’s delay was only the more dangerous to her, and turned toward the left. The first door resisted her attempts to open it; it was fastened on the inside. The second was also fastened, but to her joy she saw that the bolts were on the side next to her, A moment’s hasty fumbling withdrew them, and she entered. © The occupant, for there was. one, madesa move- ment of some kind, and exclaimed in the familiar ane loved tones which had once been so much to er: es 3 ‘*Who’s there?’’ | _ Her heart stopped its wild and tumultuous beat- ing. : ‘“Theo!’”’? she cried, and then fell lifeless to the oor. ‘> aE CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VISIT 10 DOCTOR HINDS. As the engine drew up near the depot at B—— Jim Younger joined his brother. ‘‘T had quite an experience back there.”’ ‘‘How’s that?’’ asked Bob. “‘T just dropped an extra passenger.” ““Who was he?’’ : ‘Belton, I guess, dressed up as a tramp.” ‘‘How did you get rid of him?’’ ‘“‘Let a lump of coal fall on him. If he isn’t dead by this time it is because he must have alighted on a feather bed.’’ Leaping from the engine the two brothers made a, ° m Secomichbooks (E(0)