Bob Younger's Fate — page 65: what you’re looking at

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56 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. a3 a CHAPTER IX. THE PRICE OF LIBERTY. Theo gazed at the girl steadily for a. minute, as_if to divine her guilt or innocence in connection with his capture. There was evidently an expression of malicious triumph in her face, although she looked very pretty through it all, as Theo himself was feign to confess. “How do you like your new quarters?’’ she in- quired, very composedly. | **¥You have given me neither the time nor oppor- tunity of examining them, that is if you have had - anything to do with the affair,’’ he answered, think- ing it best to fall in with her humor. “Of course I have had something to do with it,”’ she said, quickly; ‘“‘I want you to understand from the beginning that I have had everything to do with it. You will not, therefore, have any excuse for blaming any one else.’”’ ‘“What, pray, has been your object in this strange proceeding?’ | ‘‘Need you ask me?”’ — “T certainly do. A man has aright to know why another man assaults and kidnaps him on the whee highway.’’ ‘“You remember our last meeting?” SeT. do. 9) | ‘‘How you scorned my advances: es ‘I simply refused them.’’ “I felt it just as much as if you had declared maa | you loathed me,”’ “GOmic 900KS:.CO m