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— ee ee ee ee ee ae a ee ons ae of the ruined life and the cruel treachery * . | Then all hastened to where the two combat- , lay mo- - had ith = whe grappled wi As they came up to them the Californian no- ticed sernething glisten, sticking in Keno’s back. He wae | face downward, his antagonist beneath alm ‘held with a vise-like gripe. John stooped, and from the back of Alcibiades drew a little golden dagger, an exact counter- part of the weapon by which Jason Wentworth met his death! With a bitter curse the Hunchback rolled the can lee Aleibiades off the antagonist whe had dealt the fatal blow, and there in the moonlight lay the lifeless form of Charley Yampas. In the struggle Keno Bill had managed to get: out his knife, amd a single desperate slash let out the life of his assailant. The grief of the Hunchback was profound. He a upon his knees by the side of the body covered the lifeless face with kisses, a then wildly called upon the Doctor for his Rice proceeded to. examine the wound, and great was his astonishment when he opened the shirt of the half-breed to discover that it was a woman! ' The face and hands were stained, as a dis guise, for the bosom was as white as the driven snow. Doubtless long ere this the reader has pene- trated the mystery—that Charley Yampas and the woman who dwelt in the cabin of the Hunchback were one and the same. And the finding of the little dagger, too, b | the Fresh, in the hy Keno Bill, opened his 9, ace eyes in regard to the mysterious murder of Jason Wentworth. ‘Not possessing a knowledge of the woman’s history, he of course had no idea of the fearful wrongs which she had jeans a PR whic had partially unsexed her and driven her forth a wanderer upor the world. As Keno Bill had suspected, although he had not a ticle of evidence to hang suspicion ross t - had been a deep-laid plot in regard to the girl. The Doctor had made a bargain with Cali- fornia John to rescue the young woman. In attempting thus to save her, the Californian was but giving service for service, for it was she who arranged his rescue from the rope. His remark, during his interview with her, about the Doctor’s proposition to save him, she had treasured up, and after leaving John she had sought the bummer physician and bargained with him to save the con ned. . Phe Doctor arranged the matter easily enough; he had so fixed the knot in the rope that it could not slip beyond a certain point, and had also sO arra a smnaller rope that it passed around the prisoner’s body, just under the arms and then up and connected with the other one; all the strain was ht upon this; the huge “ae black cap, which he provided, concealed the 2 a whole ee } The rifle-shot was also a signal for the girl, in rah the town, to set fire to the train which led to en ; the mine fixed by the Doctor under Keno Bill’s premises. The object of this explosion was to draw everybedy back to the town, so that he, the Doctor, could release the prisoner. In the second instance, in regard to the saving ef the girl, the wily Doctor devised equally as cunning a plan. He bad carelessly walked through the kitchen just as the cook got the tea ready to send up- stairs to the captive, and, watching his op- portunity, had dropped a powder into if which made the girl ill immediately after she had taken it. en, whe’ he had bean called upon to prescribe, he hac «dministeretl a subtle drug .which had the power of throwing the patient into a comatose condition which would have puzzled the ablest doctor in the world to distin- guish from death. Keno Bill was the only one who suspected that all was not right, and so he came to watch the ve. The woman ‘‘Charley” noticed his stealthy departure from the town, and so in turn watched him. . o The grief of the Hunchback was intense when he found that the woman who had so greatly befriended him was dead. To the Californian he confided the story of her life, and of her be- lief that the girl who haa been reared by the ae villain, whom she had slain, was his own daugh- ter, but as both wronger and victim had gone to their last home, it was plain that the mys- _tery would never be sutely solved, although, in Hiko’s mind, there wasn’t any doubt but that the mother’s heart had guessed rightly. A few more words and our tale is told, , The Doctor’s scheme succeeded to a charm, and the girl eame back to consciousness, none the worse for the strange adventure through which she had passed. And, —— the Fresh of Frisco and his love, for she had owned that he was all in all to her, journeyed cnward, leaving far behind them the town of Needle Bar; but, though the Camp never saw the man again, yet the bold deeds of California John are the theme of talk through . all that wild region. 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