The other is a man of much the same build although somewhat older.

His face, where it is not concealed by a heavy, grizzly beard, is covered by numerous scars, and the border of one eye is disfigured from the same cause.

His dress and accouterments betray the hunter and trapper.
"And so, Teddy, ye're sayin' it war a white man that took away the missionary's wife, and hain't been heard on since.

Let me see, you said it war nigh onto three months ago, warn't it ?" [Illustration: "And so, Teddy, ye're sayin' it war a white man that took away the missionary's wife."] "Three months, come day after to-morrow.

Begorrah, but it's not I that'll forgit that same date to my dying day, if, indade, I forgit it at all, at all, even whin somebody else will be wearin' me clothes." "It was a dirty trick, freeze me if it wasn't; but you can _allers_ find a white man to do a mean trick, when you can't a copperskin; _that_ you may set down as a p'inted fact, Teddy." "I belaves ye, Mister Tim.