Bob Younger's Fate — page 110: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. 101 situation. Slipping through the window before which he had been standing, he poised himself on that particular ledge, and then reaching out side- ways, he managed to catch hold of the shutter of - the next window. | Allowing himself to swing like a pendulum, his feet struck the edge below and remained there. He now grasped the sill of the desired window, and peeped in to see whether he had made sufficient noise to be heard. In doing this he took a risk, as ‘indeed had been the case all the evening, for the reason that he might be seen at any moment. In order to obviate this difficulty, he decided on a bold stroke. Seizing one of the shutters, he closed it witha bang, at the same time lowering his head so as not to be seen should the couple look up. They did look up, but with the remark by the gentleman that he thought a storm must be coming up, they continued their conversaion with no fur- ther attention to the incident. ) The detective was now in a position to hear if not to see, and he applied his ear assiduously to the task of finding out just what the subject of their con- versation was. His position was not so comfortable as he might have wished, but he cared not for that so long as he was in hopes of making any discovery. However, in spite of his exertions, it seemed that he was doomed to disappointment, for he could catch a word only here and there, although one question and its answer set him thinking. ‘Suppose he will not give in?”’ “Then we must try the starving process on hints : EomiIicbooks (eo)