I don't as a rule linger among these Piegan gentry, you know, and a lengthened stay would certainly arouse suspicion." Cameron's way lay along the high plateau, from which a descent could be made by a trail leading straight south into the Piegan camp.

The Inspector's course carried him in a long detour to the left, by which he should enter from the eastern end the valley in which lay the Indian camp.

Cameron's trail at the first took him through thick timber, then, as it approached the level floor of the valley, through country that became more open.

The trees were larger and with less undergrowth between them.

In the valley itself a few stubble fields with fences sadly in need of repair gave evidence of the partial success of the attempts of the farm instructor to initiate the Piegans into the science and art of agriculture.