The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-16
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 A TO sooner were we away than
 put my eager question What
 do you think of it F
 Joe shrugged his shoulders. Do you know any of these naenp e.An of them :,
 l HOW about the fellow who Is on bod terms with
 November seized my arm A man gas approachihg through the dusk As he passed ny mpauions haiIedI him. Hello, Baxterl Didn't know you'd esEne back Where you been7g
 Right up on the headwaters.s sB1tz come down with you7's egOs stayed on the line of txaps. 9td you want him, November g Yes. but it can wait Sec any s;lsary one: nothing but red deer.. ssGood niGht-''
 s.So long,
 That settles 1t,'' said November. err @e speaks the truth. as believe he ezoes. it wasn't either of the Gurds shot @svon.
 
 Eeen any moose7 And I told you that moose quite recent That leaves just n[liler and HighaEnson-a and it weren't NE1neE
 You're sure of that7.'
 Stark certain. One reason Is that Killers above six foot. and the man ms camped with Lyon wasn't as tall bY sfx inches Another reason. You heard the storekeeper say how, Miller and Lyon wasn't on speA Hing terms Net the man who shot Lyon camped ith htna slep' beside him must 'as talked to him That weren't l4Hler.' His clear reasoning rang true.
 Hfghamson lives alone away up above Lyons, continued November. Heu make back home soon ''
 Unless he's guilty and has fled the Neunsry." suggested.
 He won't "a done that It sud be hs good as a confession No, lie thinks e's done his work to rights and has 5fhing to fear Like as not he's back Rome now
 The night had become both wild ana Clustering before we set out for Hig- anasonss hut. and all along the forest &Rfhs which led to it the sleet and ncw Of what November called s.a real neanSnights' beat in our faces
 twas black dark CT nearly so when If last a building loomed up in, front lle pa. q faint light showing under the por.
 You there, Highamson2 r called out levember.
 As there vpSs no answer. my com Danlen pushed it open. and we enter ed the small wooden room where on IG IA He turned it up and looked around. A pack lay on the floor unopened. and . gun leaned up in a corner.
 sJust got fn." conamentad Novem- Der Hasn't Ieesed up his pack yet 2 He turned it over. A hatchet was thEust through the vide thongs which Aaozand it. November drew it out
 Fat your thuznb along that edge, sanzd Bunt2 Yes7 Yet he drove t1as old hatchet as deep tl the wood Ms Lyon dreve his sharp one He's , s1trcng man
 As he spoke he was busying him MeA4 with the pack, examining it's con 4ezzts with deft fingers. It held lIttie EHaVe few clothes a ut1le tea and nsIst and other fragments of proyi ut<ns and a Bible. The hnding of tic dast was, I could see. no surprise ts E6Af390 mhculd have suspected it's presence re zpaaned hidden from me. But I hae @a@m te realize that much was piaii to him which to the ordinary man sv,is 1nxasSble-
 Having satisfied himself as to ever, AUt1cle in the pack. he rapidly re laced them and hed it up as he hac 4oHnd l. when l. gidncing out Of the nau window, saw light moving low MEaong the trees, to which called No wenml,er Joess attention.
 ~1fss likely Highamson,s he said couAng home with Iantern- Ge pwW Into that dark corner"
 dfd so, while November stood il ahe shadow at the back Of the eIoset tloor- From my position could SC, Inc lantern slowly approaching until i Nung g1eam of light through tn. window into the hut The next mo Maent the door was thrust open. ans the hea.y breathing Of man becam muaible.
 U happened that at first Hfghamso1 @mw neither of us, so that the first in taxation that he had of our presenc, HgAs No#ember's .HeIloH'
 Down crashed the lantern, and 1t, bearer started back with 8 quick haaEwe gasp.
 VEhoas thene91 he cried .sWheg-
 hem as is sent by Hal Lyon
 Never have seen words produce s. neTnendous an effect.
 H1ghazason gave a below of fury Nmd the next instant he and N0venbe TWens stzuHgiing togsf1ler
 spEane to my compani oEss 9td. an. aE~n them 1t was nc easy tE4sk for th
 e ek us to magtee the pessexfzl q.