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The staff-sergeant's eyes were on hi steadiness "I see--you don't know her," he said, lighting his cigar "Neither do I Never saw her before That's why I a about Inspector Kedsty I tell you, it's queer He didn't believe you this o with him to his house The cords stood out on his neck like that--like ed histhe road that runs through the poplar grove It happened there I'irl's man, Kent, and I'd be a fool to try to tell you what she looked like But there she was, standing in the path not ten feet ahead of us, and she stopped h she'd sent a shot into runt--a funny sound, as though some one had hit him I don't believe I could tell whether she had a dress on or not, for I never saw anything like her face, and her eyes, and her hair, and I stared at them like a thunder-struck fool She didn't seehost she couldn't see

"She looked straight at Kedsty, and she kept looking at him--and then she passed us Never said a word, mind you She came so near I could have touched her with my hand, and not until she was that close did she take her eyes froht what a couple of cursed idiots ere, standing there paralyzed, as if we'd never seen a beautiful girl before in our lives I went to rear half in two as he leaned nearer to the cot

"Kent, I swear that Kedsty was as white as chalk when I looked at him! There wasn't a drop of blood left in his face, and he was staring straight ahead, as though the girl still stood there, and he gave another of those grunts--it wasn't a laugh--as if soeant, I've forgotten soan You have er his liberty at once!'"

O'Connor paused, as if expecting some expression of disbelief fro to the Criminal Code? Was it, Kent?"