So Mark came to forestall Ronicky, by sending Jerry out of town and out of reach, for the time being.

He would not risk the effect of Ronicky's tongue.

Had not Caroline been persuaded under his very eyes by this strange Westerner?
Very early the next morning John Mark went straight to the apartment of his protege.

It was his own man, Northup, who answered the bell and opened the door to him.

He had supplied Northup to Jerry Smith, immediately after Caroline accomplished the lifting of the Larrigan emeralds.