He looked curiously at Grandma and then showed her the front-page picture of a man , clean-shaven , with an oddly shaped scar high up on his forehead . `` Did you ever see that man , Mother ? '' he asked . `` Of course I did , '' said Grandma excitedly . `` Why , it 's the man I met on the train . Who is he ? What is his name ? Now , we 'll know where to send -- '' `` That is Mark Hartwell , who shot Amos Gray at Charlotteville three weeks ago , '' said William George quietly . Grandma looked at him blankly for a moment . `` It could n't be , '' she gasped at last . `` That man a murderer ! I 'll never believe it ! '' `` It 's true enough , Mother . The whole story is here . He had shaved his beard and dyed his hair and came near getting clear out of the country . They were on his trail the day he came down in the train with you and lost it because of his getting off to bring you here . His disguise was so perfect that there was little fear of his being recognized so long as he hid that scar . But it was seen in Montreal and he was run to earth there . He has made a full confession . '' `` I do n't care , '' cried Grandma valiantly .
`` I 'll never XXXXX he was all bad -- a man who would do what he did for a poor old woman like me , when he was flying for his life too .
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