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About four miles from town he cut the telephone wires, for he

knew that as soon as his escape became known to the jailer, the

sheriff would be notified, and he would telephone in every

direction the escape of his prisoner, just the same as if there

had been no arrangement between them. It was certain, too, that

all the roads leading from Gimlet Butte would be followed and

patrolled immediately. For which reason he left the road after

cutting the wires, and took to the hill trail marked out for him

in the map furnished by Brandt.