But I had no real data to go on.

Now I've got the evidence that Jim Garnett died two months before the fire burnt up pretty nearly all the records, and that his body was shipped back to Holbrook Centre to be buried in the family plot.

You see, he was sick for some time out on Pacific Avenue, and his death was registered where the fire didn't go--" "But what put you on ?" asked Ruyler impatiently.

"I should almost rather it had been any one else.

He seems to have been about as bad a lot as even this town ever turned out." "He was, all right, and his father before him, although they came from mighty fine folks back east.