Barney had been a trapper in the country and knew where the best grass was to be found.

Since Max had found the second series of footprints, and thus proved the falsity of his claim of being alone, Jake Storms, so-called woods guide and trapper of fur-bearing animals, had relapsed into a sullen silence.

But once upon a time in an ignorant moment two other campers and myself followed a lonely railroad track and struck off on a path through the pines in search of a certain trapper on a fur farm.

So we left the old trapper to his pipe and his memories, and went in search of Mrs. Mulligan.

I don't take any stock in the people down at the settlement leavingthey'd go if they heard a coyote whistle; but Brown tells me there've been three different trappers from Big Stone gone through south in the last week, and when they leave it means something.

One had been fought between two trappers at a trading post, not over forty miles away, in which rifles at thirty paces were used, and both men were killed.

I'll be head chief among the trappers for hundreds of miles.

CHAPTER XIV HOW JERRY WAS TREED Jerry, that same morning, reached the camp of the old trapper without any trouble.

Here they had found the old trapper amid a score of nondescript human beings, white men, Indian women, and half-breed children.

" Jerry announced that he wanted to go over and have a further talk with Jesse Wilcox; after which he might take a tramp in a new region advised by the old trapper as opening a possible chance for big gameperhaps a deer.

He was a fisherman and a trapper by profession, and had the reputation of knowing these dangerous island waters well.

He says the lads were picked up by some trappers near Desolation.

Of the numerous other farms, and the small villages on both sides of the straits, and of the many families and individuals living as traders or trappers with the Indians, I can get no good record.

The few old letters which had been received from traders and trappers along the Pacific coast were brought forth for general perusal.