In a vague sort of way he remembered hearing of Tinkletown's sensation over at his uncle's house, where he was living with a couple of servants for a month's shooting.

The atmosphere had been full of the sensational abduction story for several days--the abduction of a beautiful young woman and the helpless attitude of the relatives and friends.

Like a whirlwind the whole situation spread itself before him; it left him weak.

He had come upon the gang and their victim in this out-of-the-way corner of the world, far from the city toward which they were supposed to have fled.

He had the solution in his hands and he was filled with the fire of the ancients.
A light appeared in the low doorway and the squat figure of a man held a lantern on high.