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tormentors if they were caught trying to do him 

 an injury, but the jury, if they were tried, would 

 be pretty sure to let the offenders sHp. And it 

 was a hundred to one they would never be caught, 

 for these people are trained sneaks ; no area sneak 

 is more soft-footed or cunning than the gentleman 

 with the black cloth mask and the knife, who 

 comes like a thief in the night to work brutal 

 mutilation on cattle. 



Garry owen was the only thing he was afraid of ; 

 but in Moriarty he had a rock of strength to depend 

 upon. 



" Did you see Dick Giveen? " said he, as the 

 girl ranged alongside of him. " He's had a finger 

 in this pie. Did you see him at the inn window 

 with his nose to the pane? He knew I'd come to 

 the meet, and he came to see those chaps get the 

 better of me." 



" They didn't get that;' said Violet. " They 

 looked Uke whipped puppies when you were talk- 

 ing to them. Yes, I'm sure that man has been 

 doing you injury. I heard one of the farmers say 

 to Mr Hennessey that Giveen had said you would 

 do your best to spite them. I wish I hadn't gone 

 with him in the boat that day. If I hadn't this 

 would not have occurred." 



" I don't care for those chaps so much as for 

 Dick Giveen," said he. " He's a bad man to vex. 

 These fools always are. He'll be on my tracks 

 now Uke a stoat trying to do me some dirty trick. 

 He'll watch and wait. I know him. But if he 



