The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 162: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. 153 “You are armed, Duncan?” asks the colonel, and I can see he is‘a little anxious. I look at my revolver. | It is in good working order, and I am quite ready to risk my life if need be on it. Before now it has served me more than once on a pinch, and believe I cannot find a more faithful friend. “All right, my boy.. Remember, if they get you in a hole, give the whistle, and we’ll run 1n to close the affair at once.” I readily promise. It is easv to do this, and yet I find eeetE hoping circumstances will not make it actually necessary. What I desire is to see the adventurer come down gracefully, admit I have beaten him in the game of wits, and promise to clear out. Then my victory will be complete. It is within sight, too, unless, as I said before, that unmerciful jade, Fortune, steps in to ruin it all. A. little patience, some hard work, and lo, the re- sult must be in our grasp. So I prepare to seek the apartments of Larz Andrews, and tempt my fate again. In the former instance my boldness carried me through, and I be- lieve I have the same characteristic still. When I leave Colonel Acton it is just nine o’clock, and with a laugh I tell him that ere an hour has passed by I shall have the promise of the alarmed adventurer to shake the dust of Chicago from his feet and depart for the Pacific coast. “Tf he says he must have money, tell him you will buy them two tickets to ’Frisco and place a hundred dollars in his hands for incidental expenses; but if _ ever they show up again on this side of the Rockies, or make any attempt to communicate with Robert, | Comicboo cS (alo) aa) ae, (i - ; “a Vie | 4) \