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decent kick and all shrank away from him in abhorrence.

Quick to see his advantage, Mills sprang past them toward the woods, like a cat.

"Halt!" called the sheriff.

But Mills heeded not, and when the smoke which followed the bullet from Sheriff Smith's revolver cleared, it was plain that Mills's case would be tried in a higher court than Nootwyck.