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be The Search for the Culprits. eG see it all as plainly as though I had been there. After [ left the grounds last night Steve stayed there, hidden in the bushes. Then, when his father was sound asleep and all was quiet, Bruce noiselessly broke open the sec- retary with the chisel he had stolen from the work-rooms, . took the money, and slipped out of the house to join Steve. No doubt Steve left the grounds, and hurried home with the tour hundred and seventy-five dollars. By this time Deerfoot had likely escaped from the sleeping quarters, and he met bruce by appointment in some lonely spot amid the shrubbery. Bruce gave him the twenty-_ five dollars, and made him. promise never to tell where he got it, or who helped him to escape. Then Bruce crept back to bed, and a little later Deerfoot was nabbed by Sanders while trying to get over the fence.” With a groan of despair, Linn dropped down on the bed and covered his face with his hands. “And now what am I going to do about it?” he went on, halfaloud. “Steve has the stolen money hidden away, and he and Bruce think themselves perfectly secure. And they have every reason to think so. I know Deerfoot well — enough for that. Though part of the stolen. money has been found on, him, and the evidence all shows that he climbed up by the vines to Captain Cameron’s room, his — dogged Indian sense of honor and truth will prove his — ruin. .He has promised to be silent, and he won't say a word to clear himself, or to shift the crime on Bruce ~ and Steve. A team of wild horses wouldn't be able to drag anything out of him. What am I going to do?” — For some minutes Linn sat on the bed, pondering and puzzling over the situation. His mind was so full of pity and sympathy for Deerfoot, and of hot indignation against Bruce and Steve, that he quite overlooked a mat- ter of vital importance to himself, tial It never entered his head that strong circumsta | s00kS co