But he done two years at Deer Lodge, an' nobody's ever seen him since." "Guess again," Walt replied.

"I heard o' him.

He's been down in the Chinook Country.

An' what's more I've got word o' Mart, an' he's comin' here t'night." Walt's words caused a sensation, and while it is subsiding I may as well explain that in those frontier days there was a vast stretch of mesa or prairie known as the Chinook Country, because of the unseasonable, warm, and soothing winds that blew there.

You may have read Bill Jordan's tale about these winds, in the first Injun and Whitey story.