To-night he expects to accomplish what he has been working towards for many months, a round-up of the leading moonshiners of this district.

I have seen Long before I came up here, and he confided in me, because I possessed some information, gleaned from hiking over this property of yours, which he wished to have, and that he could not very well ask for without giving me some information in return.

Long is Dick Whitfield, the head of a corps of mountain sleuths, probably the shrewdest man in his line of work who ever came into the Kentucky hills.

It was he who wounded the mountaineer in the bushes that night by your camp.

It was he who protected you in many tight places, including some that you did not know about." "And shot Lum Bangs through the wrist at the dance," suggested Nora.
"No, that was Jim Townsend, his principal assistant." "That's the fellow I want to know about--the fellow who ought to be the proudest man in the world because he looks like me," cried Hippy Wingate.
As the party strolled out towards the mouth of the tunnel, Tom Gray told his companions that Hippy's resemblance to Townsend had been quickly seized upon by the Mystery Man, Jeremiah Long, and used as a cloak to cover the operations of the real Townsend, trusting to their skill and watchfulness to keep the moonshiners from collecting the reward that had been offered for Townsend.