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158 no desire to modify the scare whicb his sudden appearance had made upon the Frenchman. He had been suspected, he had been tracked, and his schemes, whatever they were, had been frustrated. He was horribly mortified, and swore vengeance at his heart against this blundering, meddlesome American. But he also swore that though the difficulties in his path might hereby be doubled, he would not be balked in his pursuit of the girl, who had dropped a spark on that inflammable bonfire he called his heart.