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"Found it in Alec Howard's cabin. Seems your coat was hanging

over the back of a chair, lieutenant, and this and a paper fell

out. One of the boys must have kicked it to one side, and it was

overlooked. Later, I ran across it. So I'm bringing it back to

you."

In spite of herself Arlie's eyes fell to the photograph. It was a

snapshot of the ranger and a very attractive young woman. They

were smiling into each other's eyes with a manner of perfect and

friendly understanding. To see it gave Arlie a pang. Flushing at

her mistake, she turned the card over and handed it to the owner.

"Sorry. I looked without thinking," she said in a low voice.

Fraser nodded his acceptance of her apology, but his words and

his eyes were for his enemy. "You mentioned something else you

had found, seems to me."

Behind drooping eyelids Jed was malevolently feline. "Seems to me

I did."