We'll get a square deal there, and we don't know what at Lyon's." So they picked out the lynx, the beaver, and a dozen martens to leave, and making the rest into a pack, Quonab shouldered them, and followed by Skookum, trudged up the mountain and was lost to view in the woods.
The ten days went by very slowly.

Hoag was alternately querulous, weeping, complaining, unpleasantly fawning, or trying to insure good attention by presenting again and again the furs, the gun, and the canoe.
Rolf found it pleasant to get away from the cabin when the weather was fine.

One day, taking Hoag's gun, he travelled up the nearest stream for a mile, and came on a big beaver pond.

Round this he scouted and soon discovered a drowned beaver, held in a trap which he recognized at once, for it had the (" ' "') mark on the frame.

Then he found an empty trap with a beaver leg in it, and another, till six traps were found.