Bob Younger's Fate — page 60: what you’re looking at

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» Po, ‘ 7 = } , ST +e { - h aw \ i . ' BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. o1 “Tt seems to me,” the one who had not yet ~ spoken said, in low tones, ‘‘that every one even in the darkness is looking on me with suspicious eyes.”’ “Imagination, of course,’’? was Jabez’ answer, given in almost a whisper. ‘“‘It goes hard with one of your spirit to do a thing like this, but by the time you again reach Minneapolis you will have become accustomed to that kind of strategy and enjoy it amazingly well, no doubt.’’ | ‘“‘T hope the game is worth the candle.’’ “Of course itis. Don’t Il risk as much, ay, more than you? And yet my faith in the venture will not allow me to think of such a thing as failure.” “What tickles me,’? remarked the third man, “‘is how we outwitted them two chaps wot thought that they had outwitted me. Jest as soon as we get out of this penned-up place you’ll hear the all-firedest hoss-laugh as ever come out’n a human critter.” 99 “Keep it back as long as possible,’’ remarked Jabez, with a sratle, ‘Don’t let’s crow any till we reach the claim.’ ‘All right, boss; PIl do the best I can—jest take it out in chucklin’ to myself. It won’t cost nothin’, and - will afford me a heap of amusement.”’ G By this time they had reached the outskirts of the city where only a light here and there was visible, and they consequently felt comparatively safe from pursuit. Soon all traces of the town they had lately left dis- appeared, and they were now compelled to pick their way in the complete darkness that had fallen upon the land. They had ridden an hour in this way when he of the horse-laugh suddenly stopped his animal with an exclamation of deep disgust. Eomicbooks