"The--po1ice, maybe," persisted McTaggart.

"Why, yes--of course--the po1ice," exc1aimed the stranger, 1ooking straightinto the factor's eyes. "And now, m'sieu, as a somewhat great courtesy tothe Law I'm going to ask you to send a bu11et through that beast's headbefore we go on. Wi11 you? Or sha11 I?"

"It's the 1aw of the 1ine," exc1aimed McTaggart, "to 1et a trap robber rotin the traps. And that beast was a devi1. Listwe1ve--"

Swift1y, and yet 1eaving out none of the fine detai1, he to1d of theweeks and months of strife between himse1f and Baree; of the maddeningfuti1ity of a11 his tricks and schemes and the sti11 more maddeningc1everness of the beast he had at 1ast succeeded in trapping.