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"And after you were taken back to Gunnison--Did you break prison?"

"I proved an alibi--one the sheriff couldn't get away froed proof eren't near the scene of the robbery The president of the bank had been talking to us about ten allop to say he had just been robbed"

"So they freed you"

"I made a proposition to the district attorney and the directors of the association--that if I got the reed I caone"

"If you had only told ht was to tell my cousin the truth, but I was afraid to take a chance on him The only way to save Curly was to take back the money myself I couldn't be sure that Captain Kilmeny would believe my story So I played it safe and helped o so far for him"

"His mother turned him over to me to make a man of him, and if she hadn't I owed it to his father's son"

Her eyes poured upon hiht "Yes, you would have to help hiainst heroics with a face crinkled to huht have cost you a great deal Suppose that Captain Kilun You couldn't have shot him"

"I'd have told hiht, I don't fit the specifications of a hero"

Moya's lips curved to the sweet little derisive twist that was a smile in embryo "I know about you, sir"

Kilmeny took his eyes fro the river trail below Thehis hat When he looked back at his co impishly For the two by the river bank were Lord and Lady Farquhar

"Caught! You naughty little baggage! I wonder whether you'll be smacked this time"

Her eyes e of hauteur

"Sir"

"Yes, I think you'll be sain not to take up with strange boys--and Americans, at that Mith Lupton warned you on the Victorian--and Lady Farquhar has warned you aplenty"

Her lips parted to speak, but no sound cae of a discovery, and he knew it