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ditional traps about the pasture. Afterward I 

 found that he had indeed fallen into one of 

 these, but such was his strength, he had torn 

 himself loose and cast it aside. 



I believed that he would continue in the 

 neighborhood until he found her body at least, 

 so I concentrated all my energies on this one 

 enterprise of catching him before he left the 

 region, and while yet in this reckless mood. 

 Then I realized what a mistake I had made in 

 killing Blanca, for by using her as a decoy I 

 might have secured him the next night. 



I gathered in all the traps I could command, 

 one hundred and thirty strong steel wolf-traps, 

 and set them in fours in every trail that led into 

 the canon ; each trap was separately fastened to 

 a log, and each log was separately buried. In 

 burying them, I carefully removed the sod and 

 every particle of earth that was lifted we put 

 ^ in blankets, so that after the sod was replaced 



and all was finished the eye could detect no trace 

 v of human handiwork. When' the traps were 



J - concealed I trailed the body of poor Blanca 



A* / over each place, and made of it a drag that 



circled all about the ranch, and finally I took 





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