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"That no one atching hi him? I don't understand"

"Yes; he has been shot at froirl shivered "But atches hi long walks after

dark, and he is heedless of all re the liht

has fallen; so the young uard for him, and every

evening one of theoes to the office to work for

the night It is a different young , and the watcher

follows at a distance so that he does not suspect"

"But how ement?"

"Nearly every one in the county except the Cross-Roads people, though it

is not improbable that they have discovered it"

"And has no one told him"

"No; it would annoy him; he would not allow it to continue He will not

even arht, and every one knows and no

one tells hiood

people"