Bob Younger's Fate — page 50: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE, 41 you could only He seen here, it would prove quite an eye-opener to certain persons.”’ ‘*An unnecessary one, at all Sania and. I sien you are just as much interested in upholding the good name of the saintly Stark, as you call him, as the saintly Stark himself. You must have been calling on ide mutual friend to- night.’ ““T have.’ ‘Cold reception, doubtless, judging from the gen- eral frigidity of the atmosphere about you.” “You are right; he has cast me off altogether.” Stark whistled. | “Bad as that? Well, I was afraid he would, and advised him to let you go gradually; but it seems that he wouldn’t have anything except an abrupt termination to an acquaintance that has been a most profitable one to you, and so acted on his own advice.”’ “T thought you had put him up to it, If you had, I intended to make it warm for you.’ “Don’t think of such a thing in this weather, my dear girl; it’s too fatiguing. Besides, never lose sight of the fact that I hold you in the hollow of my hand. Bee single misstep, and the queen is queen no more.’ Irene laughed eontemptuoualy, “T’m too old a bird to be scared by such idle threats. ’’ ag ae “‘Tdle threats! Think of poor Windom, who lost his life so mysteriously last year, and then say idle -threats.’’ ‘‘T wonder if the good people of Minneapolis have ever heard of the name of Bob Younger?’’ said the girl, almost irrelevantly, as she drew the light shawl a little more closely about her form. comicbooks (E(0)