CHAPTER XXIV

IN THE THROES From that first interview of his with the field marshals of the reform movement, Craig had slipped back again into the camp of the enemy. There was that girl named Violet, whom Bartow had incidentally mentioned to him as a friend of Trick O’Ray. Through her he had learned of the hiding place of Ben Jarvis. Dangerous business, with danger lurking around a dozen corners; a nether region, sure enough, where all was darkness, figuratively speaking, and the nerves of the inhabitants thereof were what might…