They left me the cook for protection 

 against the vast solitude, the mighty 

 grandeur of the mountains, and the pos- 

 sible, but improbable, bear. Nice man, 

 that cook he confessed with pride to 

 many robberies and three murders! Only 

 a month before engaging as cook on 

 this trip, he had been serving a life term 

 for murder; but had been released 

 through some political 'pull.' 



Our host, in company with another 

 game warden, had discovered him in 

 the mountains, where he had gone 

 immediately from the penitentiary and 

 resumed his unlawful life of killing 

 game. But he had hidden his prizes so 

 effectively that there was no evidence 

 but his own, which, of course, is not 

 accepted in law. Thus he welcomed 

 these two men of justice to his camp, 

 told graphically of his killing then 



