Bob Younger's Fate — page 75: what you’re looking at

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66 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. Stark sank into the only chair the room afforded, and gave utterance to a sigh of misery. ‘“‘T’m about done for, Theo,”’ he said. “Ts it possible that they are starving you, or were the inen simply perpetrating some horrible joke?’’ ‘“Alas! it is only too true.” “What is their purpose?’ “That I cannot tell you.’’ “You mean that you will not?” “T would rather not balk upon the subject.” “But it concerns me.’ “Not enough to interest you o one way or the other.’ “It is your duty to tell me the whole story; at least, it will do no harm to let me have a full under- standing of the situation.’’ ‘Tt would work harm to you.’’ ‘In what way?” “Simply by playing upon your sympathy. There, now, I shall say no more. Let them do what they will, they shall never bend me to their plans.’’ It was in vain that Theo urged his companion to make known the plot their captors had formed; Jul- ian was inflexible, and when his keeper came after him, he walked away as ie as his strength would permit. Clell winked knowingly as he remarked to Theo: “The young fellow’s game, but just about one more day will fetch him to time.”’ CHAPTER XI. THE DETECTIVE VISITS BOB YOUNGER. ‘“Sam’s Place,’ a saloon neither good nor bad in _ reputation as saloons go, was in a blaze of glory. ~~ ‘comicbooks.co