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 "Go get your gun. I'll wait here," commanded Bennet.

The minister departed, the girl following still crying under her breath. The two men watched him disappear and enter his house. They waited some minutes longer and when he failed to make good his threat they returned to their car and were on their way again.

"What a miserable country this is," commented Bennet, as they started.

"Yes, miserable, for some people. It's a beautiful land, though, were it not for such things as these and—snakes. And yet, Bennet, we don't know half. It fairly sickens me when I think of the crimes wantonly committed in this land."