Ye see THE DUEL TOOK PLACE JUST OVER THE BLUFF THERE--BEHIND YE--and they allowed that Marion had struck away north for Mendocino to take ship there.

For after overhaulin' his second's boat, they found out that they had come away from Saucelito ALONE.

But they sent a tug around by sea to Mendocino to head him off there, while they're closin' in around him inland.

They're bound to catch him sooner or later.

But you ain't listenin', Mollie ?" She was--in every fibre--but with her head turned towards the window, and the invisible Golden Gate through which the fugitive had escaped.
For she saw it all now--that glorious vision--her high-bred, handsome guest and Wynyard Marion were one and the same person.