Bob Younger's Fate — page 99: what you’re looking at

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90 BOB YOUNGER'S FATE. “T saw one of those two men once. He was young and very handsome, and he spoke to me.”’ - “When was he here last?’ in his turn showing symptoms of the green-eyed monster. “Two or three weeks ago, but,’? with a mournful shake of her head, ‘‘he will come no more.”’ “Why? Did she give him the mitten?”’ “Oh, no! J have heard that he is dead. He was _ killed in some bank robbery.” ‘‘And you have never seen him since?”’ “Of course not; how could I when he is dead?”’ It was evident: then, that unless the girl was in collusion with her mistress, a fact which, under the circumstances, seemed very improbable, Theo, if alive, had never been brought into that house; he must be sought elsewhere. ‘Does the other man still come?’’ ‘Sometimes, but 1 have never seen him.’’ Suddenly Vawoob leaped to his feet, apparently terror-stricken. “Some von is comin’,’’ he <ed: in stage whispers, ‘‘vare shall we hide?”’ Katrina hesitated a moment, as if wishing to in- vestigate for herself, but the peddler pushed her toward a cupboard which he noticed was fastened with a catch, and a strong one at that. ‘“‘Let’s get in the cupboard,’’ he urged. ‘‘No one will see us there,’ and without further ceremony he pushed her in. Producing a murderous looking knife about a foot long from some mysterious portion of his anatomy, he brandished it before her frightened vision. | ; _ “Katrina,” he remarked, solemnly, ‘‘vill you lif or die?’’ EGOomic 00 CS. €O