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it since a half-hour after the attack was made on me at the bridge. Why?"

"Thunder! Hunter was one of the men of whom I thought it safe to make open enquiries about Canucks I was looking for."

"It's never safe," Trafford said, "to make enquiries of any one, unless you are willing that everybody should know, or anxious that one man should. In this case, 'twas just as well Hunter should know that we were on the track. He's a man who makes his false slips when he's the most anxious to escape."