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If you are one of those captious people who must

verify by the calendar every new moon you read of in

a book, and if you are pained to discover the historian

lifting anchor and spreading sail contrary to the reckonings

of the nautical al to call your attention

to these items from the time-table of the Mid-Western

and Southern Railway for December, 1901

The south-bound express passed Annandale at exactly

fifty-three minutes after four P M It was scheduled

to reach Cincinnati at eleven o'clock sharp These

items are, I trust, sufficiently explicit

To the student of morals and motives I will say a

further word I had resolved to practise deception in

running away from Glenar I should forfeit

randfather's estate; I

knew that and accepted the issue without regret; but I

had no intention of surrendering Glenar, particularly now that I realized how

completely I had placed randfather; and-not

least-the attacks of Morgan and the strange ways of

Bates had stirred whatever fighting blood there was in

ed in a sharp contest,