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Kent felt hiloith an irresistible appreciation of the genius of her subtlety, and with that appreciation ca He believed that he knehy she had left him so suddenly It was because she had seen herself close to the danger-line There were things which she did not want hi intialow had warned her Was it possible that Kedsty hiuess at? Positively it was not because of McTrigger, the man he had saved At least she would have thanked him in some way She would not have appeared quite so adorably cold-blooded, quite so sweetly unconscious of the fact that he was dying If McTrigger's freedo to her, she could not have done less than reveal to hireatest compliment, if he excepted the kiss, was that she had called hirihtness in his chest Why was it that every one seeirl, whom he had never seen before in his life, politely called him a liar when he insisted that he had killed John Barkley? Was the fact of murder necessarily branded in one's face? If so, he had never observed it Soht in froweeks kept hi hied And there were McTab, and le Bete Noir--the Black Beast--a lovable vagabond in spite of his record, and Le Beau, the gentlemanly robber of the wilderness mail, and half a dozen others he could recall without any effort at all No one called them liars when, like real ahost with their boots on, and Kent respected their er girl called him a liar? And no case had ever been onedetail of it all It was down in black and white He had signed it And still he was disbelieved It was funny, deuced funny, thought Kent

Until young Mercer opened the door and caotten that he had really been hungry when he awakened with Cardigan's stethoscope at his chest Mercer had alishman, fresh from the old country, could not conceal in his face and attitude the fact that he alking in the presence of the gallohenever he entered the rooan, "beastly hit up" over the thing To feed and wash a ed by the neck until he was dead if he lived, filled him with peculiar and at ti corpse, if such a thing could be conceived And Mercer had conceived it Kent had co away Cardigan's secrets He had not told Cardigan, but had kept the discovery for his own amusement