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Me.’ _~ od PA NG W y Hesketh Prichard AUTHO A COMPLETE RLD NOVEM |_.A Sherlock Holmes of the Wilderness % 3% replied the big lumberman. He come up from the brook, did his business, and went back to the water. heavy chap with large feet, and he wore tanned cowhide boots, patched There wero seven- lis in the heel of the right he rT He R JOE R OF "DO q) Rovrrisnt, 1913, by HM. Hesketh Prichard.) and, after a minute, ot two SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. Im teed of recuperation, James Quaritch, the Maine bore to jovembet Juv, & yor me thinking a bit. You remember how plain they saw the tracks of the rob. ber, the alge, the patch, the exact It sort of seeme! that a road agent who went around in @ pair of boots like that was may- be a fool, or maybo laying a false getting me a fair shot at the large red deer buck of Widdeney Pond, and {it so happened that the killing of this buck brought us news of old : for we took the head - down to him to set up, since Joe erime assured me that the old man foo ONCe worked with success at a ta: man done it. “Is it the same who held up van “That means luck,” said November. “It'll scare our moose, sure. Pity! ‘s got @ fine set o’ horns, more'n fifty-six inekes in the “How can yor tell haven't seen him?* Joe's gray eyes tovk on the look f He was a big, humber of nails. With that I had to be satisfied. It late at night when we proached Cai c, river showed Silda fle aac Son stat oa on tho right foot. hastening % brown and white an November poled the canoe ot ward, and the roaring of the rapid was in our ears, 1 along the quiet reach below the camp we heard a great clamor and commo- We jumped ashore and went silently atraight to the office, where the mahager lived. round, and two men were holding the door; one was the burly Thomp- You needn't bother no 6 more, Nov," he shouted. that for tracking?” ‘There was no doubt about the fact that November was surpr! said nothing for a full minute, then he looked up sharply. “How te A ape ot whiskey * answered Thompson. “There isn't one nearer than Laval- lotte, as you well know. drunk, wo was drugged! been, though how it was done beats me, for we had nothing but bread and bacon and tea, and I made the ‘ns the kettle?” t that and the fryingpan back at the hut, for we hunt the country for the 8 saw the tracks I knew But as we oa Joe and I walked over and found him living with his daughter, Janey lice had never been ring the identity Tree Portage. appy together, to November Just of sure they spread sot less than fifty-six and not more'n Look out! ‘Them shots haa put him back. Me's coming Lyon, for the 4 successful in di of the avenger of Bi The two seemed very tat but 1 must acknowledge that I fea that the beautiful ney would not continue to bear th name of Lyon much longer. I said as » Much to November Joe as we were “You thought’ “Then way,” I put in. low did I know he was a light you saw those stones | He put them in a pack A crowd stood ‘There was « crashing in the under- Srowth wounding ever nearer, and soon a magnificen heavy tracks. I guessed from set-out one of them six had jt bull moose came your moose!" said Joe, as ny ‘ gow bit him ulder. No need to Teas ruts, weighing ever bling forward tn hie death at once he coll reigned once again in th ‘ Fan up. He was quite dead. 1 tured nose pag it, and he stretched ic “The blackguard that robbed us.” “Good!” said No ber. fe “Look at him!" eg) the office do start Who declares that le ise abusing Janey, bie daughter, son told me that neither Baxter Gurd nor Miller don't give Well, I guess & wom- “Bee, here's the way of it. etoned some one in C from ichael’s case. And look at those year, Eac ‘was done within ten miles of 8, That showed me that the robber, whoever "t operate far from camp, Then the drugging Don't you remember the nothing in it?" I would have spoken, but Novem- ber held up hie hand. “No, I know Thompson hadn't filled it, Dut he hadn't cleaned it either. We Scross always leave the tea Jeaves in the kettle till we want to boll up the next brew. queer that some one had washed out the robber come from outside he'd never do that, no He'd be gone plain as 6 that it was one of the six. a “Now,” went on November, “when bang! I knew that, I knew @ good bit, and when I saw the ecratchies on the rock 1 was able to settle up the whole caboodle—Chria put that atuff in the 008 i picked the money down to the broo! the kettle, the big boots, an something to hold @ pack of stones with him, He waded out to that flat — and bryos y i kettle, then up pac stones on the boss's boots. had no more to do but to walk up to the hut and back again, laying the falee trail, After that he waded out to the rock aghin, #0 as to leave no Seaeauce ete i BS ae caaina, went to ut and to sleep.” scratches rook’ What made them?” paoaibiess i “The nails in the boots. Chris di is. 400, to: deston up tes hoot. the nails slipped @ bit en the “But the time, November. You said ree Sone Werte: ae reign te ches, med tr rches. Nght to t on his ‘and, the moon Tose about two. Till then that side of the tock was in black shadow.” “And the stones in the CHAPTER Ill. The Crime at Big Tree Portage. EXT morning Lyon was up He had two or green skins that he'd took off the day and he sald he was go- ing straight home to smash Janey. T lay there and I said nothin’, black His judgment was set. couldn't make all the in one day, pretty sure he'd comp at Big Tree. I arrived there just after him, as I could travel faster by canoe than him walking, and so kep' near him It was nigh sunset, and I bent down under the bank so he He went into the her no peace. shiek, You'll an's better married an; “How about a man, “It may be all right for them as don't get the pull o’ the woods too strong, but for him tha: rd joons calling on the lakos, ‘tis differ- ent someway.” “Yet there are some very pretty . or sad snowene te r, Close, sitting on a chair looking @ geod deal lone?" exclalmed November. Joo?” T asked. ‘y a man of you goes back Bridge hut tll I give you t we want to catch the robber.” Go and try if you think An outburst of argument arose, but soon one and another began to say, “We'll leave it to you, Nov."—"Mi you fetch my hundred and ninety dol- lars back for me, No' alone."—"Go on, Nov. November laughed. all slept with your money on you.” It appeared they all bad, and who possessed pocket- found thein flung empty in a corner of the hut “Well, Mr. Quaritch and me'll be long, boys. I'll let you know beg suddenly No- co?" inquired Novem- ring at Close, No one seen him ‘Lat’ “You've seen more i. tape you carry,” Quaritch,” said Joe, laughingly; of Quaritch tellin; and sing to baby.’ To this too trenchant remark I could think of no immediate reply, and we continued our way for some It was drawing on toward evening and had begun to rain when we turned from woods into the mile long trail that led to November's shack. glance fell at once upon the ground, and following his eye, I saw the im- Pression of fresh tracks, “What do they tell you?” I asked, for it was always a matter of in- terest to me to put November’ to the little daily tests that came in “Try yourself," They were ordinary tracks, and, look as I would, I could not glean much information from them. “A man in moccasins—-probably an Indian—has passed along. Isn't that right?” I asked. November Joe smiled grimly. “Not just quite. lawn. And we got the boota. Found ‘em in « bisoult-tin on a shetft ms from Mrs. pees) shanty just behind here where telegra: if you to come ho “You fool! I was at my account all night!" cried Close to Tho i November took no notice. “Who found the boots?” said he, hee, when he was cleaning up. ing-stuff, too— '—"Leave Nov over and over agin where he between the epruces. You can toll the sise of horns time in allence, Found a bottle of o! near empty,” shout “Roversbee whistled. for Has he owned up?” he nod- jed at on “Was they your boots, “Yes,” roared Cl November looked back at the lum- berman with a meaning eye. he denies the robbery!” said Thompson excitedly, “Of course I deny it!" cried Close, them beota,” put in No- “The boys took ‘em to the bunk- houne,” said Thompson, think of him paying us with one hand ees. robbing us with the other, “Wonderful!” rent the rifle in the in Bang, bang! After couldn't see me. shots were repeated. old shack. [ called out his name. beard him cursing at my voice, and when he showed his face I shot him ver landed, I never left no tracks, I thought I was safe, sure. You've took me; yet only for Janey's eake I wouldn't care, I did right, but “Two shots going if I've any luck.” 4 vember turned to th tervate,” said fee “By the way, Thompson, did you fill that kettle before you found yor “No, 1 run right back.” is “That's lucky,” said November, and ar of shouted ions to the canoe placed at our disposal by Close. By water we could jure,” res run down to Tideson's Bridge in un if It was plain November we'll did not desire to talk, for as he plied have to walt till another chap is held the canoe-pole he sang, lifting his vntrained but pathetic tenor in some of the most mournful songs I have ever heard, 1 learned later that senti- thos in music was highly Perrnen are like him tn that woodsmen are like him in . ‘We alid on past groves of birch and thickets of alder, and presently I put think this is the work of ey that held up Dan He cursed a bit, but the thieves had the drop on him, so he Just had to out with his wad of notes and heave them over as he was told. “A birch log in the fire flared up at the minuto, and as the notes touched the ground he saw a chap in a black mask step out and pick them up and then jump back into the dark. the time Dan had one eyo on the re- volver of the man in the bushes. kept him covered, so he had no show. ‘Then the voice that spoke first gave him the hint not to move for two hours, or he'd be shot like a dog. He mat out the two hours by his watch ut hearing @ sound, ‘and then ‘ay at work, but we found the mai ager, to whom November told hi however, he said we walked away in a ro nothing of his idea that there had quet been but one rob! “That just Bpel K oy father’s a murderer, That's all.” November sat on the edge of the wtabie. His handsome face was grave. Nothing more was suid for a good Then Highamson stood up. November, but you'll let mo see Janey again give me over to the police. joked him in the eyes. 1 gee a good deul of Bhe'll be lonesome over that her brute husband's want you to live with The man isn't an In‘uan; he's a white man, and he car- ries bly news, and hes not come very He continued to who at last looked up, and 1 could N pe. have sworn ‘* 1 oye. roop slightly in hia direction. change came over the “Get out of here, you and detective!” a warm caren in the bunkhouse, where we and a half of lum! jocks and talking, Novers! lariously, and some witti- clams were indulged in at his ex- Preeti 2 soon died a natural boots were juced. ‘The had Pope. beem robbed and their comrades closed round as No- vember examined them. “Seventeen in one heel and fifteen fm the other—cowhide Chris, “that's what he that us wore, and I'll swear to that “I could swear to it, too,” agreed “Take them and the sleeping stuff,” pursued Chris; “it’s a silver foxskin to a red on a conviction, eh, Noyem- he. ink they'll try their hand . Who'd stop.after such suc- mental 'd be inclined to agree with you 't for the fact that the men scared to. A party of six started. afternoon. They were hoping they’d have the luck to meet the scoundrels, 4, and bucking how they'd let daylight into them if they di, But of course they won't turn up—they’d be shy of sucl. a big party.” “Maybe,” said November. your permission, Mr. Close, me gad Mr. Quaritch’! sleep here to-night.” But' I can't attend to I'm behind with my accounts, and T must even them up if it takes “you're sure?” I said, stooping to examine sel trail more closely, It. ‘The Indian moccasti no raised heel. Hi ; he's travelling fast—see, ho from the ball of the foot; and when a man fint: Jor run, you may be sure he thinks he's got @ good reason for getting to the ‘This trail leads nowhere but to my shack, and we' our man there.” , Ten minutes later, when we came in sight of November's home, we were amoking his pipe beside’ the door. was middle-aged, with a hard face, and there was moregrayin his russet beard than his age warranted. as we appeared he leaped up and came across the open to meet us. “Blackmask is at it again!’ Novem! it you'll janey yet. hen the boys got the facts, the camp was nigh as mad as he was. They put up fifty dollars’ re- ward for any one giving information that will lead to catching the robbers, and I added another hundred for the Bo now, Jos, if you can jap your hand on the brutes, you'll doing yourself a good turn and “If the police can catch you for themselves, let And you'd lessen the chan wonderful deal if you was to burn moose-shank moccasins you'rs When did you kill your “Tuesday's a week. And my mvo- oasine was wore out, 0 I fixed ‘em oods fashion. fine ahd poft, and we ought to get the answer to a good questions do’ rh cut known to November, at our destination In admirable ti ik was a tributary bridge a rough af- loge thrown over its shall {t cut across the log- The hut, which had been 00d about a hundred yards from the north bank of the brook, a defined path leading down from it to the water. First of all skirting the path, we 4, went to the hut where the six had A few sriicies. crepe ey ut N othe atove and the je by the door. round examining ev- in deft, light way; lastly, he picked up the kettle and peered in- iz Close ended his narration, looked at November, throughout in his habitual “Do the boys up at C know you've to me?” he said. Tideson's Broo! who had Iis- the river, and the ir on ‘em ia slip- “and there's one question I'd like to have an answer to. wi How did the robber know that Dan th Michaels was worth holding up? that he was going off on the spree? been told by some one. Biackmask has got a friend in Camp That ts, unless"—— “Aye, unless?” repeated the. man- nlept. racks in the cam ‘Tree. That's how waters where if men S bollg always does And when I saw the that bean raked up out of the rivar-bed, why, there it was like print and piain- er—that the robber was e ligat man. it got me as far as to know it was one of two men did it. Mavers isn't meabie, either they're amallish made. It ‘were one or other, whichever it was, after he ew you'd killed I@s just this, I found your candlestick He took from his pocket the little piece of spruce stick, hich had pussied me so much and turned toward me. “This end's sharp to stick into the Gerth, that cnd’s slit and you fix tho *@) cfindle in with a bit o° too, Here it is.” a that? - Hy Caughter was murdered ges- The words made me gasp, and met I saw a gleam of anticipation, if not pleasure, cross November's face. He turned to me. “This 1s Mr. Close, manager of the (, River Star Pulp Company's Camp C," he sald, “I'd ke to make you known to Mr. Quaritch, Mr. Close.” courtesy concluded deliberate tones, “He's at his old tricks! him by the heels, or my name's not Joshua Close.” speaker looked up, puzzled expression, addressed himself November remained silent for a a best get away back, Mr. /" he said at length. down to Perkins's Clearing and have a look at the spot where the robbery took place, and then I'll find some excuse to take me to Camp C, when I can make my report to you.” To this Close agreed, and soon we saw him striding away until his strong figure was swallowed up in the forest “Have you sent for the police?” jt. fe'd waited till you come up. We'll send now.” “Thea sooner the better,” said No- “And whoev four chaps from Camp B in the hut by Tideson’s Bridge. to knock it down and and carry the stove into D.” “I don’t mind if I go," offered Chris. “Tl start right now. get Mr. Close safe ‘We all saw Chris men took us back into the bunkhouse, where they talked and argued for an hour. November had rel into hie usual taciturnity, But w! words the hastily made frying-pan_ bei kettle on its But November would say no more. An idea had one ay his TAs td Close could not draw it from him; ye ov T could see he had entire trust In the Yo"pere In h taciturn young woodsman. ‘Next. morning November soomed giao, inno hurry to go, and shortly be- fore the midday meal a party of half a dozen men rushed into the They were all at once, ges was les pom tne IF * fa time to discover what the tur- ,, YY od for moll was about. The manager came png 80," said he, and strol out to hear what they had to say. The cook and the cookee had joined themselves to the group, too, were talking and gesticulating 5,959, xtraordinary freedom. Leaning against the wall of the bunkhouse, the silent November #ur- jos9 November had studied the trail MeO of the six men to some purpose, for though he hardly paused as he the trodden ground, so swift eyes that he named each of the men ed to their several proached the bank, istinct set of foot- te Which we Sohowed, to the hut nd back again to water, “He's the chap that did it,” natd Ni “That's pretty What do you say about him turned to me. “He is a heavier man than I am, and he walks rather on his heels. November nodded and began to fol- oNow it can go } a@teve door and thrust in the articles, % “Only three know your #01 if 1 was you I n't make it four, not even by @ woman to it.” held out his hands. did { happen time agers & st ‘They've orders as pretty sure he hid it. there'd happened to be or quarrel or Charon al x been ‘on one of them, they'd have dropped . “what's in it?” said T. “Nothing,” returned November. “Well, Thompson hadn't filled it,” I remit: gave me & queer and seeing mY On his departure I tried to November about the robbery, have I found him less commu- He sat with his pipe in his teeth and kept on turning our con- versation to other topics until the two of us set out through the woods. The moon, as it swept across t' arc of the sky, guided us upon our way, which, after the first short cut along an immense hardwood ridxe, was good travelling enough. journeyed until, just as the trees be- came a gigantic etching in black against the gray dawn lights, we came suddenly out into the open of The sooner we I the better.” and then the maot “You always was a white man, Nov,” told you he Hours later, as we nat drinking a “Last year there were five separate _ cup of tea at the camp-fi I robberies committed on the road be- tween Camp C and the settlement,” “Each time it was just a single lumber-jack who got up, and each time a man in a black mask was the robber. November here “Up in Wyoming with a Philadel- phia lawyer after elk,” supplemented the tall young woodsman. “The police failed to make any ar- rest, though once they were on the ground within four hours of the hi up.” went on Close, to Dan Micha brought me he and the river- rds or #0 up the tote-road. “I’ve been along looking at t! marks of them six monsba: volunteered; “now we'll look around ’ the tracks was wfhat ienciny busi: mined Lyon's Upper re o 9famap, you told r er. You've explained how you knew them, all but three.” “What are the thre “First, how did ‘Highamson had been a long time in + or without visiting a settle- boys,” he said, and the ca- “it’s about time we let the Every head jerked round in fection. “Let him out!” shouted a voice. “Before tae police come?” plied November in his “You see, it wasn't ldn't eelf,” I sald, smiling. The inspectior sa .. ‘ou know that naturally a som veyed the clamoring knot of with grim humor, “I tell you again, we've been held up, robbed, cleaned out, the whole 1” yelled @ short man with ® +4 me an he point “TThot is true,” cried a fair-hatred (TACK, Ae awe On this they all began shouting again, waving their arma and laining. November advanced, “Look, nm easy, comfortable log bottle on the shelf. An old grudge made him do it. me But I couldn't tell he two amall chaps it was Bo I set the trap breaking up ¢! and Chrip walks into that. ‘ud be found, moccasins was wore out and intle manner. im held you up, boys. “Who was it, then?” November stood up. “Come, and I'll show yeu.” Finally four of us canoe and set off. They were Thomp- son, Wedding Charlie, Novemben and Our craft rushed swiftly through the creaming rapide, the banks flashed by, and in an es- tontshingly short space of time we had left the canoe and were walking through the woods. I lost all sense of direction in the darkness unti! we came out on the of the brook near ridesee’s \dge. We crossed, us crouched in the shadow rock tg twenty yards from the hut. “But all that ts what happened ast night that at seven miles an Dan has been working for » pretty nigh a three monthe’ stretch, and the day before yesterday he came + into the office and told me his mother ‘was dead and he must have leave for Dan's a good man, and T tried to dissuade him, and remind- ed him that he had bur! the last time when we were up on the lakes not a year ago. any tse; he'd got the fever on him, and he wouldn't listen, good big roll of bills due, and I could see he meant to blow them, so I paid him, and told him I'd try to keep a job warm for him until he came back from the funeral. days to get through with hi ‘Well, it was along about 4 o'clock when I paid him off, doubt he'd sleep the night in the camp and get away at dawn; but that in just what he didn’t do. I'd sald annoyed him, and after tell- ing the cook his opinion of me, and saying he wouldn't sleep another where I wae bo ce,”" sald November As soon as the light Michaeis's bivouac. The ashes of a fire and a few boughs made it: furnishings, and {in nether vember take much interest. moved, apparently fol- the lines of tracks which the ing rain of the previous day had almost obliterated, until, indeed, he gave it up. id he, in his soft- je always did have sandy beard. ind how could you t down the notes You'd think the ground was hot under him until he atarts to ing the police—and him the lastest The minute he offered to go I knew I had him.” mene you etill think Chris robbed ar" “I know it, There was a hundred yt twenty-geven dollars that can't took off him; twenty-seven dollars is just what Close pai@ Dan.” © light a candle for » read by? And why should he 1 the middle of the if he was not in t The Swede answered him with a snarl, but meeting November's thought better of it. Joe was the last person upon whom any one would tow the trail, which went down into choose to fix @ quarrel. ting, boys,” cont tood at the water's ge some stones which lox had been recently displaced, then handy, and if you'd each choose & waded down into it. oft spot and leave one to speak and the others listen till he’s through with it, we'd get at the facts, Every min- @ large flat a ute wasted gives them as robbed you water, the chance to get off clear.” “November's right,” But it wasn't “The robber, Look at last year! Got clear every tim “The robbers, “There's but one,” said he. “Michaels mentioned two and the man in the mask stepped into sight at the same moment as the fire glinted on the revolver of the other man in the bushes.” ‘Without a word November led me to the further side of the dead fire and rted the boughs of a spruce, which ly seen him examine. At a height of less than five feet from the ground one or two twigs were broken, and the bark had boen rubbed near the trunk. “He was a mighty interesting man, him with the revolver.” threw back his handsome head and “There was only one chap, and he fixed the revolver here in that It was a good bluff he played making him think there was * ¢ * The rain'o washed out most of the tracks, su o up to Camp © and try our But first I'd best shoot a deer, and the boya'll think I only come to carry them some meat, rf do when 1 kill anywhere nigh the |, ‘eee. But show did you know it in the middle of the night?” you notice wharo he cut his “Where was his boat?” I asked. But November had by now reached @ some feet in the and this he was looking . round and over with great said a huge he beckoned to me, lumberman called ‘Thompson, “Here's a large flat one, as I have sald, and what happened, We nix got our time he showed me some ascrate! yesterday morning, and after dinner its farther surface. we started off together. It were com- ing along dark when we camped in them, the old log hut of Tideson'’s Bridge. ‘i Seein’ what had happened to Dan, we ‘keep @ watch till dawn. a boat,” I ve First watch was Harry's. He never n't. The sun were up before I them all right," he said, “But how or why?" November la! od. Plane paused, and presentiy “We went foena ihe lake an@ CHAPTER V. Case of Miss Virginia Planx. MBER JOB and I had been following a moose since daybreak, moving without speech. We had not caught even @ glimpse of the animal; all that IT had seen were the huge, ungainly tracks sunk deep in swampy ground, or dug into I gave him ten it were already in the alr wh November move siligh ment later I heard a ati footfalle on the bridge, A Ddluish shadow came curiously ik, hesitating at every step, but always approachi: hut, until at lest ft parsed wi Then a match flared inside: I saw it the broken window. pause; the door creaked faintly and the figure stole out again. ‘The fi from the hut was mov- ing slowly up the path to and @ second figure was saininy nt mighty outlines as he followed with arma outstretched. fell, and the sald I. /Gid, and he made two false culn fe slipped in thi The stone was I nd I made no y daughter wae no longer ro you mure of th 2 certain as yo! racks showed they were her. When they left the cance wore rolne lent. mast drowned her in the lake. It's s Fresnty I aw a joating on the water; it was . (To Be Continued.) irred the embers under nd the firelight lit up ce as be turned with a were deep and irregular. but to me they conveyed noth- hey don’t look like the mark of ured. But that chap made hhameon had a *%o think of that old man shut in he couldn't sec the sun ri Il the others sleeping round me. I was wonderful surprised, but I took the kettle and swer that y was going down to fill her at the The robbery on brook. It was then that I noticed my 3 o'clock last night. roll of billa was gone from my belt. I came running back. Harry woke, and when I told him, he clutches at his birch helt and finds his money gone, too, | “Th “T won't an- jut I'll tell you this, ‘an done between 3 and Next morning, bright he was back agai: ih He'd made about eight miles when it came on darkish, and he decided to camp just beyond where we did the most of our timber cut last year. night was fine, and he had only his turkey (bundle) and a.blanket with him, so he went to the aide of the trail at Perkins’s Clearing and Iny down beside a fire which he built inst a rock with spruces behind it. and remembers more until he was started awake by a voice shouting at him, He sat up blinking, but the talk he h Suddenly from somewhere ahead there broke out the sound of two " CHAPTER IV. Fhe Seven Lumber-Jacks. HE more 1 saw of Joe in the days which followed, the more I apprect man and the more I be- came convinced of his r Indeed, truth to tell, not restrain the hope that new situation ‘which would give hiin an opportunity ) gf displaying them once again, #7 » ©@ course, the ordinary details of «sp @@r woods life provided him with ~ geme scope, and it was always a to me to be in the company consummate a woodsman, anifvee net long after our return from @t Amiel before Joe succeeded in Das “What makes you say that?” November gotnied fo grove of ‘Then the arms wae a cry, almost @ | Next Week's Com THE SKY MAN By Henry Kitchell Webster WILL BEGIN IN NEXT | Monday's Byening World he answered; then, Mimeuaae he eo eet oe ria struggling on the he added, “and he wasn’ pound man an’ , but a little thin chap, and he \t. “Then how did he get away? A unanimous groan verified the wading?” sai be ¥ “Maybe he waded.” lie must have ieft the somewhere,” I exclaimed, it, 't @ two hun- heavier than “THE SKY MAN” and last of all Long Lars, they wakes up, and danged If the lot of them hadn't been robbed same as {ot im, boys,” said November, him.” big hand dived into the He slept at once, Thompso' As we made our way toward C, No- breast of Chi vember found the t¢ came out again buck which had cr: te since the rain, he slipped away ilk the wild raspberry growth, returning twenty minutes later with the buck upon his shoulders, @ quict mover in the woods, Novem- ber can rarely bave been surpassed, reaching Camp sold his deer to the cvok, went to the office, The men were all might arise “We wae tearing mad,” wont on tho “Then out we goem to stream search for the tracks of the thleven.” A look of despair crossed Novem- 1 knew ho was thinking tracks where he landed,” of the invaluable information the foet Y of the six victims must have blotted “You smart cuss!" sald Chris to November Joe, A few busy hours followed and it was the next afternoon before I found t November's shanty the zplanation which “The moment 1 heard ‘Tho ‘a tery,” began November, “it a shadow into ure. put up his hands; “Then you'll be able to find his he'd no choice, for he couldn't see any Then another man who was in the bushes behind his back ordered him to haul out his bundle of notes and chuck them to the far side of. the fire, or take the @ revolver As a hunter and myself again “Because I'm sure of my man.” and asked for “You found them?” inquired No- [ could not repress the useless erled in surprise, vember. 9 “We did. They was plain enough,” rel gleam ID