Back of this mysterious tragedy of the trap-line there was a _reason_.
Why did the two wolves not destroy the fisher-cat, the ermine and the marten?
Why was their feud with the lynx alone?
Weyman was strangely thrilled.

He was a lover of wild things, and for that reason he never carried a gun.

And when he saw Henri placing poison-baits for the two marauders, he shuddered, and when, day after day, he saw that these poison-baits were untouched, he rejoiced.
Something in his own nature went out in sympathy to the heroic outlaw of the trap-line who never failed to give battle to the lynx.

Nights in the cabin he wrote down his thoughts and discoveries of the day.

One night he turned suddenly on Henri.
"Henri, doesn't it ever make you sorry to kill so many wild things ?" he asked.
Henri stared and shook his head.
"I kill t'ousand an' t'ousand," he said.