Bob Younger's Fate — page 100: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. ve 91 The girl would have sunk on her knees had the contracted space permitted. “Oh, let me hf! Vat haf I done to you?”’ “Vat haf you not done? I shall murder him!” the & utmost malignity depicted on his ugly countenance. ‘Vat mean you?’’ almost readv to faint with ter- ror as the dreaded knife came dangerously near her. “You haf a lover concealed somevares in this house. Vos dos not so?’’ “Ah, no. You mistake; dere is none.”’ But Yawcob was not satisfied. : “You shust must stay in there until I shall look for mine selluf. So hellup me gracious, if you move before I come back, I shall you split from head to der foot mit mine knife.” | The girl, certain that he would find no rival of hers in the building, joyfully gave her promise not to stir until he came back, in hope that his terrible knife would be taken away; so shutting the door _ with a snap that showed the prisoner would be able to get out only with outside assistance, Yawcob re- placed his weapon, and cautiously took his stand at the entrance to the dining-room. There he waited for some indication on the part of Katrina to break out of her prison, but finding everything quiet in that quarter, he proceeded on his tour of exploration. CHAPTER XV. SCHEMING FOR A FORTUNE. Another solitary and gloomy day had passed with the prisonev in the old stone house, — (E(0 comicbooks