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PART II--IN THE FLOOD
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He further deposed that, obeying her orders, he had stopped the Sacramento coach, and secured a passage for herself and child to San Francisco.

It was true that Ah Fe's testimony was of no legal value.

But nobody doubted it.

Even those who were skeptical of the pagan's ability to recognize the sacredness of the truth admitted his passionless, unprejudiced unconcern.

But it would appear, from a hitherto unrecorded passage of this veracious chronicle, that herein they were mistaken.
It was about six months after the disappearance of Mrs.Tretherick that Ah Fe, while working in Tretherick's lot, was hailed by two passing Chinamen.


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