tified to seeing a dead fawn skin with a 

 bullet hole in it and a hornless skull 

 lying in our camp. Here the pros- 

 ecution and the defence, namely 

 Dean and Barker, fell to wrangling. 

 It finished with the following scene. 



Barker to Dean. " Perhaps the 

 learned gentleman for the prosecu- 

 tion will explain for the benefit of the 

 Court the difference between a bear's 

 skull and a doe's skull." 



Dean. "It is not necessary, unless 

 the learned gentleman who asked 

 the question, needs coaching." 



Barker. "I should like to ask if 

 there is as much difference as between 

 a doe's skull and a human skull." 



Dean, darting a fiery glance at 

 him, but controlling himself: "The 

 gentleman is out of order, your 

 Honour." 



The judge ruled that he was and 

 thumped the stick upon the table 

 twice for no apparent reason, but 

 I began to perceive a subtle change 

 in the attitude of the men about us. 

 The air was becoming electric. I 

 recalled that Dean had killed a man, 

 Cortwright two years before, in a 

 livery stable at Golden, shot him 



