I'll tell you the whole story.

Lee packs a jinx with him.

But--Haines, did you ever see a lion as big as that ?" The dimness of evening had grown rapidly through the room while they talked and now the light from the door was far less than the glow of the fire.

The yellow flicker picked out a dozen pelts stretching as rugs on the floor or hanging along the wall; that to which Buck pointed was an enormous skin of a mountain lion stretched sidewise, for if it had been hung straight up a considerable portion of the tail must have dragged on the floor.

Buck went to examine it.