The King of Arcadia. Lynde Francis

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      "Oh, I don't know," said Bromley. "It's not such an unusual name."

      "No; if it were, I might trace it. How long did you say the colonel had lived in Arcadia?"

      "I didn't say. But it must be something over twenty years. Miss Elsa was born here."

      "And the family is Southern—from what section?"

      "I don't know that—Virginia, perhaps, measuring by the colonel's accent, pride, hot-headedness, and reckless hospitality."

      The clue, if any there were, appeared to be lost; and again Ballard smoked on in silence. When the pipe burned out he refilled it, and at the match-striking instant a sing-song cry of "Fire in the rock!" floated down from the hill crags above the adobe, and the jar of a near-by explosion shook the air and rattled the windows.

      "What was that?" he queried.

      "It's our quarry gang getting out stone," was Bromley's reply. "We were running short of headers for the tie courses, and I put on a night-shift."

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