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`` Good by . '' As he hung up the receiver he said to himself , `` You are a most affable , convincing chap , Mr. O'Dowd , but I do n't believe a word you say . That woman is no lady 's maid , and you 've known all the time that she was there . '' At four o'clock he set out alone for a tramp up the mountain road in which the two men had been shot down . A number of men under the direction of the sheriff were scouring the lofty timberland for the deadly marksmen . He knew it would turn out to be as futile as the proverbial effort to find the needle in the haystack . His mind was quite clear on the subject .