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32 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. “Never do,’’ said Stark. ‘See here, Howard, you’re not sharp. If you wouldn’t go back any more, the girl would give you an endless amount of trouble—a regular blowing up, as it were. All your friends from A to Izzard would know in short order that you had been very sweet ona questionable character, and you know what that would mean to you. I’ve a better plan. Go back and find some means of quarreling with her, and if you can in- duce her to get angry enough, she’ll bounce you and say nothing aboutit. Ill leave the means to yourself, ”’ Theo became silent again. The enormity of his conduct became apparent to him, and during the few moments. he passed in Baus ht he made a resolution that from henceforth he would act the man. “What would faithful Myra think were she to know what has been going on in her absence? What would she feel were she to discover that I have proven not only unfaithful, but wholly un- worthy of her? No! This is my last escapade, and Myra shall be informed of what I have done on her return.’ “Well,” remarked Stark, lazily, “Shave you figured up your late losses? You seem to beina deep study of some kind.’’ “Yes, I have been footing up my losses in a moral point of view, because I now regard them the most important. The other I have not yet considered in their full details, but most of my surplus at the bank is gone, and that is about all I have to depend upon.’’ ‘Then, I take it, you are financially embar- rassed.”’ ‘Eomicbooks co