210 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
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 fcbiee time I would 
make another effort to clear up this mystery of the “Hunter's 
Grave,” and trace the story of this saturnine old werrior of 
the dark and bloody ground, 
