Bob Younger's Fate — page 82: what you’re looking at

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BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. | 73 ‘Fire away. Put question number one to me.”’ ‘““You visited the cemetery to-night?’’ | ‘‘Kasily answered. Yes.” “Vou made a discovery.”’ _ ‘*A what?”’ ‘A discovery.’’ “Oh, yes; we discovered something very strange.” “What was that?” ‘‘A dead corpse!’’ ‘‘A truce to your nonsense. What did you open the grave for?”’ 7 ‘The fact is, Miss Ferry desired it. She can’t get it into her head—couldn’t, rather—that her lover was dead.”’ ‘She is now satisfied ?”’ ‘She is. I did my best to convince her that it was really Howard who was buried there, but the unfor- tunate girl was so crazed with grief and despair that nothing less than disinterment would satisfy her. Poor thing! She’s more than convinced now.’’ “You are on th® track of the burglars?”’ “No, not exactly; just trying to get there.”’ ‘*Are you to be bought off?”’ ‘‘Can you restore Theo Howard to life?”’ ‘“‘Come, now; every man has his price. Whatis yours?” ‘“You waste time in attempting to bribe me. My — answer, once for all, is, restore everything to its normal condition before the robbery, and I’1l desist — from my task. As you know that to be an impossi-_ _ bility, you are at liberty to draw your own conclu- sions.”’ . “Vou are not afraid of death?’’ “Oh, that doesn’t trouble me in the least. You are not going to do murder in a place like this, and Gomic 00 <Sp(e(e) m