A wet towel in the not too gentle hands of Mr.Gilmore removed the blood stains from his face, and then he was led forth into the night,--the night which so completely swallowed up all trace of him that his old woman and her brood sought his accustomed haunts in vain.

Nor was Mr.Moxlow any more successful in his efforts to discover the handy-man's whereabouts.

As for Mount Hope she saw in the mysterious disappearance of the star witness only the devious activities of John North's friends..