Bob Younger's Fate — page 131: what you’re looking at

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122 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. _ Howard was located, returned to Minneapolis, and struck up an acquaintance with Stark. It is scarcely- necessary to say that Younger is a member of a gang which makes robbery its principal business. Two of the men, aS you are aware, met the man Scott by accident, and after they had succeeded in cetting him under the influence of lquor, they wormed from him a part of the arrangements he had made with you and Stark. The rest of the story you are familiar with: how you three started oh your journey, and were waylaid by a band of masked men, and how this same band under the leadership of the master hand is moving heaven and earth to accomplish its purpose. The capture of the money from you and Stark was but a small part of the programme, and came in only incidentally.”’ ‘‘And you are willing to allow us to go after you have obtained the money ?”’ ‘Certainly. Why not? After this haul is made, and the money divided, the gang will separate, and leave this part of the country. It will require a sharp detective to capture any of them. Haven’t they been trying for years, but with what success? Oh, yes; they are perfectly safe.’’ | ‘‘How long will it take to obtain this money ?’’ ‘Only a few days; just long enough to go to Chi- cago and back.”’ “Do you think Dr. Hinds will be satisfied with any such flimsy scheme as you have gotten up?”’ “It is not at all flimsy, you will find. In the first place, you are supposed by the world to be dead.”’ ee Warat i: ‘Nothing more or less than dead. Two days after you disappeared, a man was found answering your description, and he was buried under your name. Two days before the robbery Younger wrote a let- ter to the doctor stating that he had found the nephew, and inclosed newspaper slips containing references to your hame and position. To this was added the advice that he expected to start for Chi- cago ina day or two at the outside. Immediately © after the bank robbery papers containing accounts of the incident, together with your disappearance, nh. GOMmec 900 CS-EO