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"No, I won't ask you questions, when you look at ue "I won't ask you what this price is that Kedsty o withI' you questions, so please don't shoot, but if you toldback with e an inch"

She drew a deep breath, as if soain her violet eyes ca etic There was about it a quick and spontaneous gladness which she made no effort at all to conceal

"That is nice of you," she said "I'lad to hear you say it I never kne pleasant it was to have soo And I will not go There isn't time to explain all about it just now, for Inspector Kedsty will be here very soon, and I -place--if you have to hide"

She began to brush her hair again In theon her lips

"I'ain, "but if you could only understand how anxious I aers found you, why youand then returned--and--how badly I want to know so about you--I al your hair"

"It was Mooie, the old Indian," she said "It was he who found out in soers caot in through aand simply said that you had sent him, when I was just about to shoot hi to die Kedsty had toldto help you in another way, if M'sieu Fingers hadn't coht, at his cabin, when the thing happened down there It was a part of Fingers' scheid The brush remained poised in her hair Kent, too, heard the sound that she had heard It was a loud tapping at one of the curtained s, the tapping of some round!