Bob Younger's Fate — page 87: what you’re looking at

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78 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. — The janitor stared at him with a perplexed air. ‘“Jist say that again, will yez? Seems to me I’ve had a quare lot of visitors the day, onyhow. Farst one comes to me and sez, ‘Did ye see Mr. Howard that noight,’ and sez I, ‘Yis;’ then sez he, ‘Air ye sure?’ and I sez, ‘Yis, sure.’ And who should come along nixt but yer own drunken silf, and sez ye, ‘Did ye see Mr. Howard’s face?’ And sez I, ‘Av coorse I did,’ and then yer impident enough to say, ‘Air ye sure?’ Now, what does this mane?’’’ bringing his fist down on the table with resounding force. “Tommy, can you keep a secret?’’? asked the other, dropping his brogue, a fact that the janitor noticed immediately, and seemed greatly alarmed * thereby. He was on the point of instant flight when his companion said, in low but hurried tones: ‘“T’m Belton myself. If you want to help matters on to a discovery, calm yourself, and act in a per- fectly natural manner. You must not tell anybody that I have been here to-day.’’. “Sure an’ I won’t.. I’ve forgotten it already.’’ “That's good. Now tell me what the man was like who asked you the same questions as [?’’ “Oh, he was only a Dutchman, but, begorra, when I come tothink how noicely ye fooled me, I _ _wouldn’t now care to take oath that he was man or __ baste.’’ ‘“How long is it since he was here?” ‘Half an hour.’’ What}? | —*Jist what I said—half an hour.’’ “When did he leave?’’ 3 ‘He didn’t lave at all, as far as I know.”’ “Where did he go, then?’’ EomiIcbooks.