Bob Younger's Fate — page 102: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. 93 ‘‘Are the fiends still resolved to starve you into submission?”’ asked Theo, as he started toward the bedside. Clell stepped in front of him. “You are near enough, my friend. Talk whee you are,’ and with that admonition he retired to the daur, | “They have brought me to terms at last,’’ said stark, feebly. ‘“‘I have starved too long already, and am finally forced to tell you what they require of me.”’ ‘‘Don’t hesitate,’? said Howard, warmly. ‘‘You know I urged you to tell me all the last time I saw you.”’ ‘‘But you have no idea how much it will humili- ate me to say a word. Oh, I cannot!”’ ‘You must tell me everything these men want. I take it that they require a sacrifice from me, and even should I think myself unable to make it, the mere statement of their demands will do no harm.”’ Stark hesitated, but as if making up his mind to get through as soon as possible with a most dis- agreeable task, he began cpsigiec atk “You owe me some money.’ ‘‘T believe I do; some twenty-five or thirty dol- lars.’’ “These men, in jtidar to legitimize a “ibbere. wish that debt to be increased to a hundred thou- sand dollars.’’ Theo stared at the sick man as if he believed him crazy. ‘How do they know that I owe you anything?”’ an indefinite suspicion entering his mind for the first time. Stark smiled sadly. ((o) Gomicbooks