Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-29
CHAPTER xv.-lContinued.l


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81 am going to make a boat for you"
he said. land | want hides and thread
and tallow."
A few weeks back Maurice Frere
would have laughed at such a sentence;
but he had begun now to comprehend
that this escaped convict was not a man
to be laughed at, and though he detested
him for his superiority, he could not but
admit that he was superior.
you can't get more than one hide off
q goat. mani" he said, with an inquiring
tone in his voice-as though it We're
Just possible that such a marvellous being
as Dawes could get a second hide by
virtue of some secret process known only
to himself
81 am going to catch other goats at
the pilot station"
but how are you going to get there.
"Float across. Come, there is no time
for questioning. Go and cut down some
saplings and let us begin"
The lieutenant master looked at the
convict prisoner with establishment, and
then gave way to the power of knowl-
edge, and did as he was ordered. Be
fore shutdown that evening, the carcass
of poor Nanny, broken into various most
unbutchery fragments, was hanging on
the nearest tree; and Frere, returning
with as many young saplings as he could
drag together, found Rufus Dawes en-
gagged in curious occupation. He had
killed the goat. and. having cut off its
head close under the jaws, and its legs
at the knee joint had extracted the
carcass through "A slit, which slit he had
now sewed together with strings. This
proceeding gave him a rough bag and
he was busily engaged in filling this bag
with such coarse grass as he could col
lect. Frere observed, also, that the fat
of the animal was carefully preserved
and the intestines had been placed in a
pool of water to soak.
The convict, however. declined to give
information as to what he intended to
DO. ITS my own notion" he said. Let
me alone. l may make a failure of it,"
Frere, on being pressed by Sylvia af-
fected to know all about the scheme. He
was CALLED to think that convict brain
should contain mystery which he could
not share.
On the next day, by Rufus Dawes
directions, Frere cut down some PUSHES
that grew about mile from the camp
ing ground. and brought them in on his
PACK. rms sooN e nini ne"riy nan Jay
ginning to tell upon his physical pow
ers. The convict on the other hand.
trained by woful experience in the
boats to endurance of hardship. was
slowly recovering bio original strength.
"What are they for?' asked Frere.
as he flung the bundles down.
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