From Chicago he was chased, after two attempts so near success that it was sure that the third would
get him. From Chicago he went under a changed name to California, and it was there that the light
went for a time out of his life when Ettie Edwards died. Once again he was nearly killed, and once again
under the name of Douglas he worked in a lonely cañon, where with an English partner named Barker he
amassed a fortune. At last there came a warning to him that the bloodhounds were on his track once
more, and he clearedonly just in timefor England. And thence came the John Douglas who for a
second time married a worthy mate, and lived for five years as a Sussex county gentleman, a life which
ended with the strange happenings of which we have heard.