Bob Younger's Fate — page 140: what you’re looking at

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- 7; Beg & | > ha mi ‘is ae BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. 131 “The same.”’ | ‘‘Has no clew been found to the robbers—murder- ers, | should say?” Ah! could Myra have seen the expression of those. eyes now. ‘It seems not.”’ ‘“‘How stupid those detectives must be!’’ cried Mary, with flashing orbs. ‘‘I believe I could do bet- ter myself.” whee Myra smiled at her vehemence. ‘‘l am afraid you would bea lamb among wolves if you were to turn detective.’’ “Td do it wilhngly anyhow for aman like Mr. Howard, if I thought it would do any good.”’ No change in Myra’s countenance; one would never have suspected from her looks that Theo How- nah had been other than the merest acquaintance to er. : “Oh, well it is hardly necessary to discuss the matter further. Mr. Howard is buried, his crime goes unpunished, but in the great hereafter all, doubtless, will be made plain.”’ Mary, feeling herself dismissed, went about her work, but there was an unsatisfied look on her face that gave a pretty good indication of the trend of her thoughts. | | “She is hard to read; not one single idea have I gained from all those questions I put to her. She seems almost to have forgotten, that such a person as Theo Howard ever existed, yet with such a girl as she seems to be, feelings of that kind are most unnatural, provided she ever did care for him. I have understood that she was very much in love with him, and if that was the case, then she must now be playing a part, unless she is of a very fickle nature, which I certainly don’t believe. | “But what can she.have discovered, if she is wearing a mask? She was at the grave on that night; did she discover that the man who was bur- ied there was not Theo Howard? Julian Stark after-— ward called on her; she was grief-stricken. What did that show? Only that she had made no discov- Te Ota ees °. Eomicbooks (e(o)