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understood that, unless the Holl, this peace would last until the soldiers were

withdrawn

"When the world's a-lookin'," coood idea to crawl under a log--an' lay still"

Purvy had been too fa Reporters caathered there such news as the Hollive

them, and went back to write lurid stories and description, froedy Nor did they overlook the

dramatic coincidence of the return of "Wildcat" Saery They made no accusation, but they pointed an

inference and a ht It was a seres of environment Adrienne read some of

these saffron misrepresentations, and they distressed her

Meanwhile, it came insistently to the ears of Captain Callomb that

some plan was on foot, the intricacies of which he could not fathoainst a nuuilt, or likelihood of guilt Oncein men too well fortified to be taken by

the posses and deputies of the Hollman civil machinery At this news,

he chafed bitterly, and, still rankling with a sense of shame at the

loss of his first prisoner, he formed a plan of his ohich he

revealed over his pipe to his First Lieutenant