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Going to bed at three o'clock on a winter , after a duel in

which you escaped whole only by sheer good luck, does

not fit one for sleep When I finally drew the covers

over ht in connection with the history of the feeeks I had spent at Glenar was playing so's statee fortune had proved

to be ahad not stolen or dissipated

it, where was it concealed? Morgan was undoubtedly

looking for so of value or he would not risk

his life in the business; and it was quite possible that he

was e to search for hidden property

This idea took strong hold of me, the more readily,

I fear, since I had always been anxious to see evil

in Pickering There was, to be sure, the unknown alternative

heir, but neither she nor Sister Theresa was,

I i an assassin to

killto

the county authorities, and I never regretted that resolution

The seat of Wabana County enty miles

away, the processes of laere unfaht, of course,

have been easily disposed of by an appeal to the Annandale

constable, but now that I suspected Pickering of

treachery the caretaker's importance dwindled I had

waited all ,