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The Avalanche

CHAPTER XI
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Her name was Mary Garnett.
"That's what put me on--the G.in the middle of the name of the man Madame Delano married.

I telegraphed to Holbrook Centre to find out what his middle name was, and after that it was easy.

I also found out that he was born in California, and I guess that old wild life was in his blood.
He stood Holbrook Centre until he was sixteen, and then homed back and took up the trade he just naturally had inherited.
"I figger out that he didn't tell his wife the truth when he married her back there, not until he was on the train pretty close to S.F., and then he told her because he couldn't help himself.

She couldn't help herself, either, and besides she was in love with him.

He was a handsome, distinguished lookin' chap, and he kept right on bein' a fascinator as long as he lived.
"I guess that's the reason she left him in the end.


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