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no hope that he would relent. Dean 

 intended to take his prisoner away 

 immediately. It required much per- 

 suasion, and a bond to keep Nimrod 

 with us under pledge to appear at 

 Garver to stand trial within forty- 

 eight hours. 



There is an old saying: One never 

 knows the law until one breaks it. 

 Here was I a criminal, though with 

 no such intent, and worst of all not 

 allowed to bear my own punishment. 



Thus was our trip broken up and 

 by five o'clock next morning our 

 gloomy party began a forced march 

 in order to make Garver in time. 

 One hundred miles in two days is 

 not possible with a pack-train. Leav- 

 ing Sommers and Charley to bring 

 it as fast as they could, the Cap'n, 

 the Tevi and the criminals hurried 

 ahead, our horses at a trot over logs, 

 bogs, wasps' nests, jolt, jolt, an 

 awful day's travel. We ate a cold 

 dinner, with the exception of coffee, 

 and in the small hours got into 

 Pine Cone Lodge, more dead than 

 alive. Forty miles without a trail, 

 part of it in a snow-storm that ren- 

 dered the footing most precarious. 



