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Updated: June 6, 2025
The soldiery had now all departed, save a corporal and three men, and peace reigned over the woods given up again to the elk and roebuck. Atwater and McNerney were astonished at Fritz Braun's stolid indifference. The whole drama was now laid bare up to the fatal moment when the entrapped Clayton was left helpless under Braun's strangling fingers.
My boy, my poor son! They will kill him!" "Not if you are sensible, Mrs. Leah Einstein," growled the policeman. "But your boy's life depends now only on you." "Where are you taking me to?" pleaded the woman, her storm of tears choking her voice. "That you will soon find out," menacingly said McNerney. "Where you ought to have been long ago!"
"What do you mean?" quickly queried Ferris. "Oh! Any gonoph can see that the man was murdered for the stuff!" resolutely said McNerney. "He was no fellow to clear out! His life was clean as a whistle! I know all about him!" "How can you prove that?" hotly said the excited lawyer.
While a wild coast storm raged, and the screaming gulls circled around the plunging ship; while shrill winds moaned in the steel rigging, McNerney crept down for the last time before sighting land, at four o'clock, to peer through the grated door and see Fritz Braun lying prone a confused heap his coat rolled up as a pillow under his head.
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