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Suddenly she faced hiain "It has just this moment occurred to me," she said, "that you haven't said 'Thank you'"

So suddenly that he startled her he was at her side He did not hesitate this tian's place He caught her two hands in his, and with theers Words tumbled from his lips He could not remember afterward all that he said Her eyes widened, and they never for an instant left his own Thank her! He told her what had happened to him--in the heart and soul of hian's He told her of dreaain after he had escaped, if it took him all his life He told her of Mercer, of his discovery of her visit to Kim's Bayou, of his scheme to follow her down the Three Rivers, to seek for her at Fort Simpson, to follow her to the Valley of Silent Men, wherever it was Thank her! He held her hands so tight they hurt, and his voice trembled Under the cloud of her hair a slow fire burned in Marette Radisson's cheeks But it did not show in her eyes They looked at hily, that his own face burned before he had finished as in his mind to say, and he freed her hands and stepped back fro all that," he entreated "But it's true You ca I'd always dreaain, at the cell, like--"

"Yes, I kno I cah the mud and the rain, Mr Kent And it was so black I lost ht not find barracks I was half an hour behind Mr Fingers' schedule For that reason I think Inspector Kedsty may return at any moment, and you must not talk so loud--or so much"

"Lord!" he breathed in a whisper "I have said a lot in a short time, haven't I? But it isn't a hundredth part of what I want to get out of my system I won't ask the million questions that want to be asked But I must knoe are here Why have we come to Kedsty's? Why didn't we et away"