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traits while living, quite as peculiar, as his taste in burial, or 

 the shape of his head. What circumstances could have com- 

 bined to drive one of his naturally strong and active social 

 feelings into the terrible isolation of life and of death, in 

 which I had thus far traced him. 



Come what might, I vowed that at some future time I would 

 make another effort to clear up this mystery of the " Hunter's 

 Grave," and trace the story of this saturnine old warrior of 

 the dark and bloody ground. 



