Potts has got me talking to myself.

I wake up talking of him, out of the little sleep I do get.

I'll tell you the fact--if Potts is here six weeks longer, and let to finish this canvas, my influence in Slocum County is gone.

I might as well give up and move on to another town myself, where my dreadful secret is unknown." "Nonsense! But what can Billy Durgin do ?" "Well, I'm desperate, that's all.

And one night Billy had me meet him up by the cemetery--he came disguised in long black whiskers--and he told me that Potts was James Carruthers, better known to the police of two continents as 'Smooth Jim,' wanted for robbing the post-office at Lima, Ohio.