They left me the cook for protection 
against the vast solitude, the mighty 
grandeur of the mountains, and the pos- 
sible, but improbable, bear. Nice man, 
that cook — he confessed with pride to 
many robberies and three murders! Only 
a month before engaging as cook on 
this trip, he had been serving a life term 
for murder; but had been released 
through some political ‘pull.’ 
Our host, in company with another 
game warden, had discovered him in 
the mountains, where he had gone 
immediately from the penitentiary and 
resumed his unlawful life of killing 
game. But he had hidden his prizes so 
effectively that there was no evidence 
but his own, which, of course, is not 
accepted in law. Thus he welcomed 
these two men of justice to his camp, 
told graphically of his killing — then 
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OO TAMIL 
