Went through the ice and drowned himself, though as there was a blizzard nobody quite saw the end of him, and in case there was any doubt they've got a warrant out.

Farmer Winston's dead, and if he isn't he soon will be, for the troopers have got their net right across the prairie, and the Canadians don't fool time away as we do when it comes to hanging anybody.

The tale seems to have worried you." Winston sat rigidly still and silent for almost a minute.

Then he rose up with a curious little shake of his shoulders.
"And farmer Winston's dead.

Well, he had a hard life.