It's the one criminal rendezvous I know of in all this North country.

Bad Indians who have lost credit at the Hudson's Bay Company's posts go to Thoreau's.

Whites and half-breeds who have broken the laws are harboured there.

A dozen trappers are murdered each winter for their furs, and the assassins are among Thoreau's men.

One of these days there is going to be a big clean-up.