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Jim joined them, and immediately he and the officer returned to the prisoner. "It's all right, Maxley," said the officer; "let him go." The officer removed the handcuffs, and Ethelbert Brown was free. His first motion was to seize Jim's hand. "Hockson, tell me why you helped those detectives," said he. "Revenge!" replied Jim. "For what?" cried Brown, changing color.
Millicent shivered at the mention of Jim's name, and the colonel, unhappily ignorant of the cause of her agitation, tried to divert her mind from the chances of harm to Tarpaulin by growing eloquent in praise of Jim Hockson. Suddenly the colonel himself started and grew pale.
Perhaps he had suddenly learned certain properties of gold which were heretofore unknown to him; at any rate, it was soon understood at Spanish Stake, where he had located himself, that Jim Hockson got out more gold per week than any man in camp, and that it all went to San Francisco.
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