Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-16

>~-~->-~- -e'-~~"-@--- the head and heaved him in the sea like as not I'm nigh desperate. The work of three years gone, three win ters spent with sam alone. like some kind of a Crusoe and his man Friday and keeping my wife and two little gals down at Valdez
 Look here. ain't it a bit early in the year to kin foxesT' said Joe after a pause.
 They'd have been worth % per cent more in a month";
 "Then whyT- Because l couldn't have been de- coyed away except while the steamer was running before the winter closed down See? Even as early as this in the year the pelts were worth S15.OOO."
 My said Joe. Suspect any one in particulurE"
 "I believe it may have been Trapper Simpson Hes had a down on me this good while back. Well, if it was him. he's paid me out good, the black guard"
 Hard words don't bring down nor Aldu Aol httlf eiiN dot.
 There was a silence; then l said:
 What would you give the man that discovered who it was robbed your
 "If he didn't get me back my pelts | could give him nothing. If he did he'd be welcome to $jOO.' replied the fox farmer
 Good enough. Noyember?' I asked ! Joe nodded. What do you mean?' asked Staf ford, turning to Joe. "You trail readerY
 "Leanin' to be- said Joe 
 Thus it was agreed that we should go across to Eel island at dawn to let | November have look round. We ! went ashore and Joe at once took cast. looking for tracks. though he knew he was little likely to hnd any, | for the ground was as hard as ir0u and had been impervious for days. We next climbed to StafOrd's cabin. ' Come right iu.' said he.
 "Waltw said Joe. 'You told us the 1 robber lived in here while he was on the island If things is the way he ! left them I'd like to look round"
 Have your way" said Stafford. "I | haven't disturbed them. l put off di- rectly I saw your smoke, and l hadn't been long ashore
 Joe went in and examined every thing with his usual swift care. He lit match after match and peered about the stove, for the interior of the cabin was pretty dark even in the day time
 After this he bent over the table and. drawing his knife, scratched at a stain on the near side, and then ait a similar stain upon the other.
 I'm through" he said at length.
 Stafford, who had been watching Joes proceedings with an air of in- credulity that hordered on derision, turned sharply to question him:
 Found out anything" 1 Not much" answered Joe
 Well, an I can see is that the vil- lain has eaten a good share of my 1 grub"
 'I dare say" said Joe. There was two of them, you know"
 'No. l don'tl And what else can you tell me about themT
 'I think they was man and wife. She's a smallish woman; I'd guess she's maybe weakly, too. And he's fond of reading; anyway, he can read"
 Stafford stared at November half sus- piciously.
 "Whatg' he shouted Are you kid ding me? Or how did you get all thatG'
 That's easy" replied November. There are two or three traces of lit- Gle flat foot in front of the stove and a woman couldn't run this job on her own. SO it's likely there was a man too"
 Stafford grunted. ''You said she was weakly|
 CT thought maybe she was, for if she hadn't split 1e water out of the kettle most times She took it or the stove there wouldn't be any track, and here is one near on top of the other so it . happened mOre'n once on the same spot. She found her kettle heavy. Mir , Stafford" 1" Joe said seriously. '.Pm free to own that seems sense, ? acknowledged Stafford. But the read mg-thats different" 'Tabes been pulled up alongside . the bunk-see that scrape of the leg?- and he's had the lamp close up along side near the edge where the stain is There's plenty old oil stains in the mid dle of the table. but these close to tho edges aiR't been long on. You can seq that for yourself" By jlngoT said the fox farmer Anything elseF "The chap what robbed you was 8 tmpper an right and had killed red