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The stranger, on hearing us enter, 
looked quickly about as though to try 
and escape, but after one glance at us 
with wild, glittering eyes he slouched 
back on the bunk where he sat and mum¬ 
bled some kind of a greeting. I had a 
fancy at the time that he must have 
taken a good look around the Mile Ninety 
before entering La Rocque’s cabin and in 
all probability had sized Walters and me 
through the windows of the trader’s 
cabin. We figured that he was perfectly 
safe, as long as we kept a sharp account 
of his doings, so Walters urged him to 
come back over to our cabin and get 
something to eat. He seemed reluctant, 
as though fearing a trap of some kind, 
but Walters and I argued him out of it 
and presently he went with us. 
Jim Stillman, as the wandering hobo 
called himself, was the queerest character 
■ I have ever met. After a supper, which 
he vowed was the first meal he had eaten 
for months, he became quite talkative and 
told us how he happened to be roaming 
through the wilderness in the dead of 
winter, without grub or blankets. 
Up in the Slave River Country he had 
committed some petty offense and had 
been imprisoned for it at Fort Vermilion. 
The following winter he had been re¬ 
leased on parole and was obliged to re¬ 
port once a month to the Fort, a distance 
of a hundred miles from where he was 
working. During the cold weather ht 
had been too ill to make the trip anc 
someone had warned him that he woulc 
sure get into trouble for failing to answei 
his parole obligations. Becoming fright¬ 
ened at this, he left that part of the coun¬ 
try and traveled west into British Colum¬ 
bia, thus hoping to elude the police 
(At this stage of his narrative, th< 
stranger gave both Walters and me caust 
to realize that he might be “slightb 
cracked,” because we could see no rea 
reason for his being so anxious to eludi 
the police !) 
The mere fact that Stillman tried t< 
keep out of sight made for trouble righ 
at the start. He had to live, and rathe: 
than show his face he took to breakinj 
into stores or into cabins in order to ge 
grub. In this way he left a regular trai 
behind him and now and again reports o 
the activity of the police reached him am 
only increased his fear of the law. A 
fall came on he wandered south along th 
eastern slopes of the Rockies, living prin 
cipally on wild fruits, and having no gur 
once killed an Indian dog he had lure 
away from a camp, and ate it. Just be 
fore the first snow fell he stumbled ont 
a trapper’s cabin and stole a .22 single 
shot rifle and a couple of dozen cartridge 
for it. After this he hit the Little Smok) 
somewhere near the headwaters, and ha' 
followed down its course until he cam 
to the old trail, and from thence to Ninet 
Mile House. 
There was nothing much we could d 
with him, whether he was a criminal o 
no, so Walters told him he could help L 
Rocque with the fish nets for awhilf 
Here again, the trader showed himsel 
worthy of the name the Indians had give 
him, “Winopagun meassin moneow 
(white man with a gold heart), for ther 
was very little chance of the man eve 
being able to earn his board. 
(To be continued ) 
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