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THE WARNING “So you know Blue Bob,” he remarked, overtaking the girl after some fifty yards. “Know him! I reckon so! I’ve always known him, I think, and I’ve dreaded and hated that man all my life.” …
CRISIS Lockwood returned in depression to the turpentine camp, and spent the rest of that idle Sunday in anxiety and self-reproach. He seemed to have muddled things badly. He had blundered into a con…
OPEN WAR Lockwood got three days’ leave of absence from Craig with some difficulty, and only by alleging business in Mobile of the utmost importance. The camp was busy; Craig did not want to let him …
THE LAST CHANCE Of what happened immediately afterward Lockwood had no knowledge. It seemed that almost whole days had passed before he half started up in semilucidity. He could move neither his hand…
THE FOG Back in the bayou was an uproar. Fat pine torches were flaming, so that the whole foggy place seemed a great glow; and then he heard the splash of paddles and saw something like a spot of lig…
THE PAY CAR The car was fearfully incrusted with red, yellow, and white mud, but Lockwood recognized it at once as the light car that Craig used for sending out to the railroad. A moment later he esp…
COUNTERPLOT If he had to be interrupted at that moment there was no man whom Lockwood would rather have seen. Young Jackson came on slowly; he was wearing his gay summer clothes, with his hands clenc…
RESURRECTION He slipped through the warehouse and up the hill to the road. It was intensely dark, but he knew the way this time. He hurried, full of the driving energy of revenge. Then for the first …
THE LABYRINTH The men were straggling back, talking loudly and excitedly in the darkness. As he ran down the stairs Lockwood met Tom on the gallery, hot, furious, defeated. “How is he?” asked Tom. “J…
DEEP WATER With a furious face Power drove the motor boat up through the choke of the smoke clouds, leaving the deserted house boat ablaze on its mud bank. Blackened and half suffocated, they came to…
