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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. 197 termined to wreak vengeance for such bold brigand- | age. Another robber was wounded, but he was at once thrown across the horse of one of his comrades, and > _ afterward carried away. Affairs were in this critical condition when the | trio came to the door; without the delay of an in- stant they were in their saddles. Hight robbers had entered that little town buta » few minutes before, bent on’ an errand that was fraught with awful danger to innocent citizens as — well as themselves; two of their party were left be- hind in the cold embrace of death, and a hike num- ber of the inhabitants of Northfield, mute witnesses of civilized man’s rapacity. CHAPTER XXXIV. FLIGHT OF THE OUTLAWS. For once the bandits had made a fatal mistake in their course of rapine and murder. In leaving the wilds of Missouri for the fields of Minnesota they were exchanging a perfect knowl- edge of the topography of one State for absolute — ignorance of the other, and this was certainly an _ egregious blunder. The man who had been their chosen leader and knew every foot of ground in his own State lay - dead in the streets of Northfield. They had looked to him for a safe pilotage,and now they were thrown upon their own resources. To make matters worse, the citizens of Northfield were fully aroused and bent on exterminating a band which had hitherto defied the efforts of detec- tives and civil authorities. When the six robbers rode out of ihe parsnvene village, fifty men were armed and ready to pursue — them to death; but by the time they were mounted on trusty horses, the band had secured considerable of a start. “Boys,” said Frank James, with a serious face, Ecomicbooks.co