“How?”

“Why, I don't know,” said Mother Borton. “I'm tellin' you what Henry Wilton told me.”

This was maddening. I began to suspect that she knew nothing after all.

“Do you know where he is?” I asked, taking the questioning into my own hands.

“No,”—sullenly.

“Who is protecting him?”

“I don't know.”

“Who is trying to get him?”

“It's that snake-eyed Tom Terrill that's leading the hunt, along with Darby Meeker; but they ain't doing it for themselves.”

“Is Doddridge Knapp behind them?”