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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. | 49 they ort to be, and when they thort I was about done for, they began to lay a plot. to jump my claim. By pretendin’ I was too drunk to notice anything, I succeeded in getting on to their game from first to last. They start to-morrow, and if we want to head them off we’ve got to git away to-night, and no mistake. Lemme tell you another thing; they’re going to watch us like hawks to see that we don’t go afore they do.”’ ~ “Us?” asked Theo, sharply. ‘‘What do they know of us?”’ 3 | | ‘Oh, they know all about it. Ilet more out than I intended that night.’ ‘‘T’ll tell you my plan,’’ interrupted Stark. ‘‘Scott doesn’t like it, but I think it’s about the only, thing — we can do that is reasonably sure to be successful. We must disguise ourselves as farmers, and ride out of town on horseback, ostensibly on our return home from the city, but in the direction of B——, the nearest station we can reach at which the western train stops: There we can cast aside our disguises, buy our tickets, and board the train.” “Tt seems to me,’’ remarked Theo, doubtfully, ‘that such a plan would be a roundabout way of circumventing a couple of rogues. Why not go © directly to the depot here?” “They'd detect us sure then, disguise or no dis- cuise, for they are on the watch there. Come, write your note to Mr. Daniels, and while you eat a bite and change your clothes, I shall get a boy to take your communication to its destination.” Theo, convinced against his will, but falling in with his friend’s judgment in his anxiety to retrieve his shattered fortunes, did as requested, and when cEomicbooks ((0) mn