After getting tired of watching and waiting I went down to the trail where, to my astonishment, I found the fresh tracks of a large bear which must have passed by that way while I was sleeping.

As a rule I do not like to be treated discourteously, but in this instance I felt glad that this stranger had passed me by.
On arriving at the fort late in the evening I found my friend in a terrible state of mental excitement.

He said that he had not slept a minute during the whole of the night before.

He had filled the door of his room with rails, and sharpened one end of a long stick, which he intended to use if necessary as a weapon of defence.

When I arrived he was again filling the door with rails.