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"You've got to listen to ot plenty of tiot to hear me!"

"Well, let me loose then, daht, I'll let you loose" Saunders released hi each other, both out of breath "I'asped "I'hter's friend, too I'ood naht She is innocent, I tell you, and you are a coward to--"

"You say--you say--"

Several by-standers at the ticket-office and hotel, attracted by the co

"Go back!" Saunders held up his hand warningly "This is no affair of yours I want to speak to him in private Leave us alone"

Thethat the quarrel was over, they went back whence they had come "Let's step over here," Saunders proposed; and he led the way to the railway blackshted In the shadow of its sain

"You said--" Drake began, "you said--"

"I said she was innocent of the foul charge you are ainst her," Saunders said, sharply "You are a crazy h I ahter She is as sweet and pure as the angels in heaven"

"I--I know more than you do Ann said--"

"Yes, I knohat the child said," Saunders retorted "And if you had been the right sort of a father you would not have acted on such slight evidence Dolly is in this plight simply because she saved you--"

"Saved me? What the hell--"

"Yes, she saved you from arrest and imprisonnal from Mostyn It was Tobe Barnett, who had coht, but it was by accident, and not appointment Dolly could have explained it all to Ann, but she did not want the child to know of your connection with that gang Now you've got the whole thing, Drake"

The mountaineer stared, his mouth open; the sinews of his face were drawn into distortion