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`` No , I assure you I am not . '' `` Then how does it happen that Mr. Sherwood is sitting here in your office instead of being -- '' `` In the lockup ? '' `` Yes . '' `` I was taken to the lockup , Colonel Owen , '' said Walter , `` but about midnight a lynching party broke it open and took me out . `` But I made an appeal to my captors , and was able to prove to them I received a reward not long since for the capture of the famous outlaw , Dick Ranney . '' Colonel Owen sank into a chair . `` I never heard the like ! ''