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THE CHAIN OF THE PAST.
For once in its career, Lebanon was absolutely united.

The blow that had brought down the Master Man had also struck the town between the eyes, and there was no one--friend or foe of Ingolby--who did not regard it as an insult and a challenge.

It was now known that the roughs of Manitou, led by the big river-driver, were about to start on a raid upon Lebanon and upon Ingolby at the very moment the horseshoe did its work.

All night there were groups of men waiting outside Ingolby's house.