Bob Younger's Fate — page 32: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. | 23 “Tt will certainly prove the most profitable occu- pation you have ever undertaken. Now, listen: How have you been accustomed to treat Stark during his calls upon you?’’ ‘‘As a passing acquaintance merely.”’ ‘“Have you ever shown your dislike to him?” ‘‘T have always tried to conceal it as much as pos- sible, but I never sueceeded in being what I would call cordial toward him.”’’ “Then, are you actress enough to maintain the same athitude toward him, making it a trifle warmer if anything, and allow ith to make you his confi- dante if he is inclined to do so?’’ “IT think I am,”’ Myra replied, with a smile. “‘I could do anything not dishonorable in such a cause.”’ “By not rejecting his advances, if he has any to make, you will probably discover if he has any mo- tive outside of the robbery and the disappearance of Theo Howard. In the meantime, I shall be in con- stant communication with you, so that immediate vente can be taken of any misstep he may make.’ Belton now stopped the Koel and assisted Myra to alight, keeping up a sharp lookout for a shadow, but as nothing suspicious was seen he bade her good-night, feeling assured that he had good grounds for supposing that-the enemy had not as yet made much progress in divining his plans. ‘“But,”’ thought he to himself as he made his way to the office of his superior, “‘how is it to be regard- ing this young man Howard? His disappearance is strange, to say the least; but I didn’t dare to inti-° mate such a thing, though whatever I might say to Miss Ferry in that respect would not shake her faith in him a particle, She isn’t one of that kind, who, comicbooks