Chapter 31
FATHER AND SON--CONCLUSION. "Jack, do you mean to say you would put your own father in prison?" asked Dr. Mackey reproachfully, after Old Ben had tied his hands behind him. "I would--were he such a fraud and villain as you, Dr. Mackey," was our hero's calm reply. "You will never make me believe that any of your blood flows in my veins." "Then you believe I am an impostor?" "I do." The doctor fell back and sank on a bench. Jack's firm manner appeared to take his nerve from him. "What shall you do next?" he asked finally. "Take you straight to our plantation." "No! no! Colonel----" Dr. Mackey stopped short. "Do not take me there, I beg of you!" "But I shall take you there, and what is more, I am going to find out what Colonel Stanton has to say concerning you." At this the surgeon
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