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He changes his plan and takes a big chance; cuts back to the

track, boards a freight, and reaches Fort Lincoln."

"My God!" cried the other, startled for once out of his calm.

The officer nodded. "You're on the trail right enough. I wish we

were both wrong, but we ain't."

"But surely she would have known he wasn't her brother, surely--"

The ranger shook his head. "She hadn't seen the black sheep since

she was a kid of about seven. How would she know what he looked

like? And Struve was primed with all the facts he had heard

Kinney blat out time and again. She wasn't suspecting any

imposition and he worked her to a fare-you-well."

Larry Neill set his teeth on a wave of icy despair.

"And she's in that devil's power. She would be as safe in a den

of rattlers. To think that I had my foot on his neck this mo'ning

and didn't break it."