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Within the next few anday and night It was, after all, an error which ht about it, he told the surgeon He ad to live had horrified hi bore a different aspect for hiathering the evidences for his alibi, and he was confident of proving himself innocent of John Barkley's murder

He anticipated ten years in the Edmonton penitentiary But ere ten years there as coan's hand He thanked hian, who had saved hier under his eyes

"I thought you'd look at it differently, Kent," he said, drawing in a deep breath "My God, when I found I hadman," smiled Kent "It's true I shouldn't have ht next to God Al to live or die But we all y to ars now and then while I'm in retirement at Edmonton, and I shall probably insist that you come to smoke with me occasionally and tell me the news of the rivers But I' to worry you a bit more here I feel queer today, queer insidejoke if soain, wouldn't it?"

He could see the iain his faith in the psychology of the an, lifted unexpectedly out of the slough of despond by the very man whom he expected to condemn him, became from that moment, in the face of the mental reaction, almost hypersympathetic When finally he left the rooan had told hih to stand on his feet

He did not see Mercer all the rest of that day It was Cardigan who personally brought his dinner and his supper and attended hiain, as he felt that he wanted to sleep There was a guard outside his door now