You'll know more by daylight to-morry 'n you know now." And the last part of the speech was true, for by midnight the Hawk had fled.

And the sale of the Anderson farm to Humphreys was never completed.

For three days the end of the world was forgotten in the interest which Clark township felt in the flight of its favorite.

And by degrees the story of Norman's encounter with the gamblers and of August's recovery of the money became spread abroad through the confidential hints of Jonas.

And by degrees another story became known; it could not long be concealed.