28 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



which had been stowed away in a fob pocket. We 

 held a council of war outside of the log shanty while 

 the lumbermen were eating their breakfasts. We had 

 informed them that we had been robbed, but they one 

 and all protested their innocence, and assured us of 

 their chagrin that such a thing should have happened 

 in their camp. After they left the cam}), we made 

 a thorough search of the premises, but could find none 

 of the stolen stuff . 



We were now served with breakfast by the cookee 

 the cook's assistant a lad of perhaps eighteen years of 

 age. The evening when we arrived, this youngster 

 had been quite kind and courteous to me, and I in con- 

 sequence gave him a little present in return for his 

 kindness, and now he motioned to me to go outside 

 with him. There he informed me that there were five 

 " Bushwhackers " in the crew of lumbermen who were 

 out-and-out bad fellows, who would rob a man as 

 quickly as any professional pickpocket, and that they 

 each of them had " done time " in prison. These men 

 he named, and gave it as his belief that they were the 

 robbers. His description of the men satisfied me that 

 they were the same men whose looks had made such 

 an unpleasant impression upon us. 



The county town was thirty miles away from where 

 we were located, and but one passenger train each way 

 a day stopped at our station when flagged, but there 

 were many " Empire Line " fast freight trains which 



