Chapter 21 JAKE ELLIOTT MAKES ANOTHER EFFORT TO GET EVEN.

s it is impossible to tell at one time the story of the doings of two different sets of persons in two different places, it follows that, if both are to be told, one must be told first and the other afterward.

For precisely this reason, I must leave Sam and his party for a time now, while I tell where Jake Elliott had been, and what he had been