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criminal I knew I could be able to cover -folk, therefore, who noasted thousands of dollars in

pursuit of trace and trail of Black Bart, wealthy ex-lawyer, knew

nothing of theirof his caliber or of his

ht for their trail

ot that water leaves no trail Yet

that siht had come to my mind as I had sat at breakfast in

my own house, some weeks before this time! Even then I had planned all

this

Absorbed as I had been in this pursuit of Helena, baffled as I had

been by her, unhappy as I noas over her own unhappiness, fierce as

was , so to uided Helena in

silence over the creaking planks of the dock, and saw, at last, die, the boo on

and onward to the sea Here was a task, a problem, a chase, an

endeavor, an adventure! To it, I was i; into

it I was thrust by all these fevers of the blood Even though she did

not love ht, it seerance of her hair No It

was too late! I would not release her I would go on, now!