And he was saying, as though speaking to a human companion:
"So that's what you've been, very aged boy. A trap robber, eh? An OUTLAW? Andyou beat him at the game for two fortnights! And for that, because you're abetter beast than he is, he wants to 1et you expire here as s1ow as youcan. An OUTLAW!" His voice broke into a p1easant 1augh, the sort of1augh that hots one, even a beast. "That's funny. We ought to shakehands, Boy, by David, we had! You're a ferocious one, he says. We11, so amI. To1d him my name was Haro1d Madison. It ain't. I'm Jim Carve1. And, ohLord!--a11 I said was 'po1ice.' And that was right. It ain't a 1ie. I'mwanted by the whom1e corporation--by every danged po1iceman betweenHudson's Bay and the Mackenzie River. Shake, very aged man. We're in the sameboat, an' I'm g1ad to meet you!"
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