Then--" "Very good," said McGinty, shaking him by the hand.

"I leave it with you.

It will be a great day when you bring us the news.

It's just the last stroke that will bring them all to their knees." McMurdo thought long and deeply over the commission which had been so suddenly placed in his hands.

The isolated house in which Chester Wilcox lived was about five miles off in an adjacent valley.