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194 Jake. You won't lose by it!" Robert turned as if he was about to go, but suddenly he said: "It will be a good thing for me to search that man Russell before I go. I might find a letter or something on him that the general would be glad to get."

"You do it, then. I don't want t' have anything t' do with it."

Robert stepped forward and opened the door of the wood-box, but a cry of dismay escaped him which instantly brought Jacob Gunning to his side.

"He's gone!" gasped Robert.

The fact was too apparent to be denied, and the open door on the outer side of the wood-box left no question as to the exit which the prisoner had employed.