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"By serving the State in this very matter of the Squaw Creek

raid. As prosecuting attorney, it is in my discretion to accept

the service of an accomplice to a crime in fixing the guilt upon

the principals. Before the law, Lieutenant Fraser stands accused

of complicity. We believe him not guilty, but that does not

affect the situation. Let him go up into the Cedar Mountain

country and find out the guilty parties in the Squaw Creek raid."

"And admit my guilt by compromising with you?" the Texan scoffed.

"Not at all. You need not go publicly. In point of fact, you

couldn't get out of town alive if it were known. No, we'll

arrange to let you break jail on condition that you go up into

the Lost Canyon district, and run down the murderers of Campeau

and Jennings, That gives us an excuse for letting you go. You see

the point--don't you?"