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Rh Superintendent. “My dear sir, that’s one of the prettiest young villains in the Colony. If we all had our rights he’d have swung long ago.”

“I believe him to be an innocent man,” said Daintree, warmly. “I am positive he never committed the crime he was transported for.”

“I know nothing about that,” replied the Superintendent. “He’s made up for it out here, if that’s so. But you shall see his record for yourself.”

And in perhaps the ghastliest ledger ever kept, wherein every entry was a human tragedy, and that of Erichsen but one among thousands, his single champion now read the curt official version of the following facts.