Edgar Rice Burroughs

“ Allen is a bad man—a very bad man; yet in the worst of man there is a spark of good. Allen told me this morning, in the district attorney’s office, what it was that had kindled to life the spark of good in him. ”

“ We worked on the theory that if he could be made to realize that Eva lived, the cause of his mental sickness would be removed. We tried everything, and we had almost given up hope when, almost like a miracle, his memory returned, while he was looking at a kodak picture of Eva that I had shown him. ”

“ Here he deliberately pulled off the fore shoe from the horse and hid it under Crumb’s body. Then he rode back to the stable, unsaddled the Apache, and made his way to the village.
“The district attorney said that we need have no fear but that Custer will be exonerated and freed. And, Eva”—she turned to the girl with a happy smile—“I have it very confidentially that there is small likelihood that any jury in southern California will convict Guy, if he bases his defense upon a plea of insanity.” ”