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"That no one atching hi him? I don't understand"

"Yes; he has been shot at froirl shivered "But atches hi long walks after

dark, and he is heedless of all re the liht

has fallen; so the youngone of theoes to the office to work for

the night It is a different young , and the watcher

follows at a distance so that he does not suspect"

"But how ement?"

"Nearly every one in the county except the Cross-Roads people, though it

is not improbable that they have discovered it"

"And has no one told him"

"No; it would annoy him; he would not allow it to continue He will not

even arht, and every one knows and no

one tells hiood

people"

The stalwart old man on the front seat shook out the reins and whined the