Bob Younger's Fate — page 175: what you’re looking at

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166 age: BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. Belton uttered an exclamation of disgust as he turned away. , ‘‘How long will it be until the next train leaves?’ ‘‘Four hours.’’ | At the specified time the tramp, arrayed in more becoming habiliments, entered the train, and was borne swiftly away on the trail. But how did Belton escape the awful fate that had - been intended for him? It was indeed a Providential deliverance from in- stant death. . The blow which dislodged the detective from his perch had come sideways, and thrown him so that he fell clear of the bridge. Whirling through the air asif shot from a cata- pult, he by the merest chance alighted in the chan- nel of the stream, and by the time he arose to the surface the cooling water had restored him to con- SCloUSNeSS. | Striking out boldly, he reached the shore, clam- bered up the bank, and at once started for the sta- tion. Finding that a freight train was just leaving, he boarded it, and rode to the next stopping place, where he succeeded in catching a fast train which reached Chicago about an hour and a half after the arrival of the train the Younger boys had taken. He made his way directly to Dr. Hinds’ residence, with the result as has been stated. | He was now engaged in a chase which promised to give him much trouble;. but he was possessed of ' that untiring perseverance which had made him so uniformly successful heretofore, and he felt that perseverance would land him victor in this instance. If he could only have had the assistance of Jones, he would have been sanguine of a speedy termina- tion of the matter; and he hoped that his assistant had gone back to Minneapolis where he could now be of great service. , To his joy, on his arrival in that city, he found Jones in waiting for him. The meeting was a welcome one to both, and it Eom G 00 ES Eco