Siddon

It was late afternoon when the dispirited searchers reached the Siddon clearing on their return from the fruitless day's work.

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Since Plutina had thus come to meet him, there was no need that he should follow further the trail toward the Siddon cabin, which lay out of his course.

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At sunrise, next morning, he was lurking on the borders of the Siddon clearing, spying on the movements of the family.

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Siddon cabin and the Holloman Gate to a short two miles, Plutina was torturing a brain already overtaxed in the effort to devise some means whereby she might wreck the projects of the villain, without at the same time bringing ruin on herself, or those she loved.

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So, they came at last near to the Siddon clearing, where a little path ran through the wood toward the house.

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Siddon, while yet in his prime, had been slain in a raid on a still by the revenue officers, and that despite the fact that he was not concerned in the affair, save by the unfortunate chance of being present.

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Siddon welcomed the sound of hoofbeats pounding up the trail through the darkness.

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The veteran and his two men, who would have by far the roughest going, were not to report until sundown at the Siddon cabin.

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Under the increasing light his gaze could distinguish the line of the valley a mile further on, in which the Siddon cottage lay hidden.

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Siddon cabin, so that, after a conference there, the active work of searching could be begun promptly at dawn.

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