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"You take a burden of intolerable weight from my shoulders. Now I
shall feel easier about that interview. But I should like to ask
you this: Do you feel justified in this continued surveillance of a
man who has so frequently, and with such evident sincerity, declared
his innocence?"
"I do that. If he's as guiltless as he says he is, my watchfulness
won't hurt him. If he's not, then, Mr. Challoner, I've but one
duty; to match his strength with my patience. That man is the one
great mystery of the day, and mysteries call for solution. At least,
that's the way a detective looks at it."
" May Heaven help your efforts!"
"I shall need its assistance," was the dry rejoinder. Sweetwater
was by no means blind to the difficulties awaiting him.
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