WOLF TAKES VENGEANCE UPON HIS PEOPLE From that hour was born in Roderick Drew's breast a strange, imperishable desire.

Willingly at this moment would he have given up the winter trapping to have pursued that golden _ignis fatuus_ of all ages--the lure of gold.

To him the story of the old cabin, the skeletons and the treasure of the buckskin bag was complete.

Those skeletons had once been men.

They had found a mine--a place where they had picked up nuggets with their fingers.