The railway makes a bend from Wilmington to this place and then down to Charleston, so this is really the nearest station to only a small extent of country." "That's so," the railway man said.

He had heard from Dan a good deal about the case, and had got thoroughly interested in it.

"Either Marion or Kingstree would be nearer, one way or the other, to most of the swamp country.

So it can't be as far as Conwayborough on the north, or Georgetown on the south, and it must lie somewhere between Jeffries' Creek and Lynch's Creek; anyhow it would be in Marion County--that's pretty nigh sure.

So, if I were you, I would take rail back to Marion Courthouse, and see the sheriff there and have a talk over the matter with him.