Chapter 13 A DEAD MAN'S MESSENGER

For the written message on Thompson's lost card was plain. Macartney was-Hutton! And Hutton's gang were just the new, rough men Macartney had dribbled in to the La Chance mine!

It was Macartney-our capable, hard-working superintendent-for whom Paulette had mistaken me in the dark, that first night I came home to La Chance and the dream girl, who