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Except for those two reports there was no sound Sa an uproar of alarm Now, he should doubtless have to pay

with his life for both the deaths which would inevitably and logically

be attributed to his agency But, strangely enough, no clamor arose

The shot inside had beenstore, did not arouse the house Purvy's bodyguard had been

sent away by Hollis on a false alarm Only the "womenfolks" and

children re with a piano any

sounds that ht have come from without That piano was the chief

e things

hung up"; that ancient and expressive phrase, which had coauged by the ha in the sainst the rafters

Now, Sa down, uninterrupted, on what had been

Aaron Hollis as it lay motionless at his feet There was a powder-

burned hole in the butternut shirt, and only a slender thread of blood

trickled into the dirt-grimed cracks between the planks The body was

twisted sidewise, in one of those grotesque attitudes hich a

sudden sureatest pheno the roadside clods, and