"Guess he's Clarke's, hide and bones--and that's all there'll be when the doctor gets through with him.

He's a sucker the doctor taught farming and then sold land to." "Then, who's the doctor ?" Harding inquired.
"That's not so easy to answer; but he's a man you want to be friends with if you stay near the settlement.

Teaches farming to tenderfoot young Englishmen and Americans; finds them land and stock to start with--and makes a mighty good thing out of it.

Goes to Montreal now and then, but whether it's to look up fresh suckers is more than I know." "We met a fellow named Clarke at the Windsor not long ago.

What's he like ?" When Gardner described him, Harding frowned.
"That's the man," he said.
"Then I can't see what he was doing at the Windsor; an opium joint would have been more in his line." "Does the fellow live at Sweetwater ?" Blake asked.
"Has a farm--and runs it well--about three miles back; but he's away pretty often in the North, and at a settlement on the edge of the bush country.