Bob Younger's Fate — page 156: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUN GER'S FATE. 147 _ the faeuinative. with its occupants, was out of sight in a flash. The tramp had seen all this, and in a moment di- | vined the object of the two eentlemen, As soon as he saw them enter the cab he ran along the track unperceived, yet only by the greatest exer- tion did he succeed in reaching the senger } in time to become a passenger. He clambered up, and placed himself so as to re- main concealed from those in front, but his position was one of great danger, inasmuch as he was mo- mentarily in risk of being thrown from his perch by the rough motion of the engine. The ground seemed to slip from under him with the rapidity of lightning, and every now and then the rays of the 1ising sun fell upon the glistening rails like the flashing of diamonds. “This is glorious!’’ cried the tramp, his voice broken into a thousand fragments by the constant jolting. “‘I could ride forever in such a place as this if it would only take meas fast to fame and for- tune.’ The two gentlemen in the cab began to feel easy. “We've outwitted them at last,”’ said the clergy- man, in tones that could be heard only by the drum- mer, seeing that the trainmen were too much en- caged in their work to think of listening, even could they have heard. “Tt’s taken hard work, though,’’ was the reply. ‘“T was a long time. vetting on to the organ-grinder, but when he disappeared I was altogether lost. If he was on thetrain afterward it was in a disguise I didn’t penetrate. That Belton’s a deep man, I can _ tell you.’ ‘‘T reckon you don’t know whom I rode with part of the way?”’ ‘“‘Maybe another of them.” “Exactly ; Bill Jones, in the shape of a green coun- — tryman, had the audacity to sit down alongside of me for about two hours.”’ “Rather risky business for him.”’ Tt wouldn’t have been, had an accident not oc- curred that overthrew his calculations and put me comicbooks