We left Rale bound and Kirby unconscious." "Unconscious, hurt--but not dead ?" "He had a bad gash in his skull, but was alive." Kennedy, puffing happily upon a pipe, came loitering about the corner of the hut and approached us.

Eloise staggered to her feet, shrinking back against the wall of the shack, her eyes on his face.
"That man here!" she cried in terror.

"That man?
Why, he was at Beaucaire! He is the one to whom I claimed to be Rene.".