Bob Younger's Fate — page 176: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. . 167 took but a few moments to acquaint each other of what had happened. ane you are sure they haven’t arrived?’’ ‘Sure.’ “They must have gotten off close to Chicago, then.”’ | ‘Yes, if they left the cars at all.’’ “They certainly left the cars before they arrived . here; maybe a few miles back.”’ ‘A sad thing took place after we left Minneapo- lis,’ said Jones, scarcely knowing how to break the news of Myra’s disappearance. “What is that?’ ‘*Miss Ferry has been abducted.’ | ‘*Nonsense!’’ . ‘It is only too true.”’ “Then they must have known more about our visit to the cemetery than we imagined.”’ “Yes; it was evidently done by the same gang, for I haven’t the least doubt that the servant girl who enticed her away was none other than our old acquaintance, the slippery Irene.”’ He then related. the story of the abduction so far as he was acqauinted with it, and while they slowly left the depot they made many a futile attempt at theorizing upon the whereabouts of the bold and successtul robbers, as well as the situation of the unfortunate Theo, if, indeed, he were alive. ‘It’s like hunting for a needle in a haystack,”’ said — the disconsolate Jones, ‘‘or for a flea, more likely; for a needle will keep still, and a flea won’t.’’ ' Belton smiled. ‘We'll succeed yet, my boy. If you’ve as much — determination about you as I have, you’ll never say die. And we’re just as likely to run across them now as when we were seated beside them.’’ ‘Tyo you think they will be likely to come back to — this place?”’ . “T think so. The gang, you know, is in this local- — ity, and the division of the spoils will probably occur close to if not in the city. At least there 1s one way - left us even if it should prove slow.” ‘Shadow the Queen?’’ EOMmlG aC @) cS (E(0) m