His mother was a full-blood, an' come from Louisiana." "That accounts for an instinct I see croppin' out in Kane," rejoined Wade.

"He likes to trail a man.

I've caught him doin' it.

An' he doesn't take to huntin' lions or bear.

Why, the other day, when the hounds treed a lion an' went howlin' wild, Kane came up, an' he looked disgusted an' went off by himself.