sions of the feet of the various mon- 

 sters in regions wide apart, and they 

 saw that all the cattle were killed in 

 the same way their muzzles torn, 

 their necks broken ; and last, the marks 

 on the trees where the Bears had 

 reared and rubbed, then scored them 

 with a broken tusk, the same all 

 through the wide range; and Kellyan 

 told them with calm certainty: " Pe- 

 dro's Gringo, Old Pegtrack,the Placer- 

 ville Grizzly, and the Monarch of the 

 Range are one and the same 'Bear. 11 



The little man from the mountains 

 and the big man from the hills set about 

 the task of hunting him down with an 

 intensity of purpose which, like the 

 river that is dammed, grew more fierce 

 from being balked. 



All manner of traps had failed for 

 him. Steel traps he could smash, no 

 log trap was strong enough to hold 



