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In the Carquinez Woods

CHAPTER VII
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Did I say I wouldn't help you?
No.

If you're willing, we'll run the risk together, but it must be in my way.

Hear me.
I'll drive you down there in a buggy before daylight, and we'll surprise them in the cabin or as they leave the wood.

But you must come as if to arrest him for some offense--say, as an escaped Digger from the Reservation, a dangerous tramp, a destroyer of public property in the forests, a suspected road agent, or anything to give you the right to hunt him.

The exposure of him and Nellie, don't you see, must be accidental.


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