The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-14

De7aer one night" corrected November. 'eHow can you tell that7'
 November pointed to the ground at the far side of the fire.
 gro begin with, No. had his camp pitched over there, 's said he: then. see ing my look of perpIexity, he added pftyingly: We've a westerly wind these last two days, bat before chat the wind was east. and he camped the GFsk night with his back to 1t. And in the new camp one bed e boughs is frsshee than the other"
 The thing seemed 90 ahsurd1y o5- V1ous that was nettlsd.
 tI suppose there are other indications haven't notieed," I said.
 'sThere might be some you haVensd mentioned" he answered wariIy.
 stWhat are they 7s
 s4That the man who killed Lyon e thick set and very strong; that he bae been good while in the woods with out having gone to a settlement; tllae he OWES blunt hatchet such as Wo wood chaps call stomahavk No. g. that he killed moose last week. that he can read: that he spent the night before the murder in great trouble uG mind and that likely he WAS a religious kind O chap
 As November reeled or these details in his quiet. low keyed voice I stared at him in amazenent
 tsBuE how can you have found out aiI fhatY' said at last '1f it's cStrect it's wonderfuIf'
 sI'H tell you. if you want to hear when I've got my rnan-if ever do get him. One thing more is sure. he Is chap who knew Lyon well. The rest of the job lies in the settlement of St AmieL where Lyon lived.
 We walked back to Big Tree pCE ee and from there ran down fn the canoe to St AEniel. arriving the following evening About ha1f @ mile short of the settlement November landed ana set up our camp. AfterWard we went on. had never before vfsited ts place and l found 1t Q bg a Hetls col ony Of scattered houses stEasslllag De- aide the river. Et possessed two ssssa and one of the smaIlest clluECles ! have ever seen-
 You can help me here R yoe Sgill.e z said NOvembeE az we pau9ed bea-s me larEer of the stores.
 s-Of coarse will. HoWf
 ~By letting lem think you've engaged nae as your Ru1dA. and we've come in to st. Arnael tO buy some grub and gear we've run abort of.~
 +.An right And with thu aErWtES- ment we entered the store. will not make any attempt t0 do scribe by what roundabout couEsas e talk November learned a1l tho news of desoIate lftt1s gt. Amtei and e the surrounding country ysfde. The pEoVill- cIaI police had evidently found n1eanl to close the mouxh Of the lumberieek for the time at least. as no hint of Lyons death had yet drifbed back Co his native place.
 Little by IltE1e # cause out 6Eat ecy five men were absent from tho @ls+ ment Two of these. FStz and BGztac s Gurd. were brothers who had eG1s on an extended trapping expeaitson- me other ahsenteeB were Hlga zls I Lyon's f4ther~tn-law.s Th0usas A15, a professional guide and hunteF, and. lastly, Henry Lyon himself who had gone up river to v1att his tEaps, staEt- ing on the prew1oOs Friday. Ths other men had all been away three weeks oE more. and ali had started iM camur I except, Lyon, who, having sold hlgs went on foot
 I Next by tmpereeptzble deszes. Elo taIk slid round ts the subject of Lsy1ns5 wife. They had been nsaEEtG fC years and had no child She had ben | the belle of St. Ann4eI and thers had been no small competition for her hand. Or the absent mem both Miller and the former and Lyon had never been on good terms since the marriage. The younger Gurd was a wild fellow, and only his brothers 1100eac0 Kept him straight.