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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. ue 191 the hour of noon was at hand, three horsemen rode up to an inn on the outskirts of the town, dis-- mounted, and after giving their steeds in charge of the hostler, entered the house. ‘fe | ‘They were, of course, talkative, and as the tooth- some dinner brightened their wits, they became louder and more demonstrative in their conversa- tion. | Who were these people? | Jesse James, Bob Younger, and Charlie Pitts, three men well calculated to carry out any plot that required boldness as well as strategy. : By and by their talk drifted into politics, and their host, who had been serving the meal, became all at- tention. — | “This is going to be a bad year for the Radicals,’’ remarked Jesse, with a vicious lunge at a piece of meat, as if he would exterminate the said. party with as much gusto as he was devouring the choice steak before him. ‘On what do you base your opinion?’’ asked Bob, — quietly. | “On general principles, of course.: That party has been in power so long that it is rotten with aro- gance and corruption; it has treated the Southern States with the iron hand of despotism, and created a system of carpet-bagism that any people with true manhood would resist to the death.” ‘‘Good reasoning, until you look on the other side,’ was Bob’s answer. ‘‘How much has it done for the country?” “Slain hundreds of thousands of innocent peo- lel? . ‘“In a just cause.”’ Pe “Oh, you talk too much,” Charlie interrupted. ‘Let money talk. Who cares what the party has or hasn’t done? They’re all corrupt, anyhow, and don’t care for anything but your votes.” eee “That’s just it; who’s going to get the majority?” ‘“T’ve a hundred that says Tilden will usher the grand old Democratic party into power next elec- tion,’’ Jesse said, banteringly. i ‘And I have another hundred that says with the cComicbooks (ele)