’Teeste LeNoir buys a carton of
Savage .303 cartridges — charge.
Sam Canoe-Tied-to-Shore trades a
trade-2 otter tor a tanged bear-'
jumper.
At that first sweeping examina
tion Curt selected four names as
meriting suspicion. On the next time
through, three of them dropped out.
Only one remained—the name of
Teeste LeNoir.
’Teeste—Baptiste, the fellow was
a half-breed. He was a trapper and !
lie lived some distance from Russian j
Cake, for he did not get in often; i
from six to eight weeks elapsed be
tween his visits. But when he did
come in. he traded very freely, lie :
was by easy odds the best customer j
that Higginbotham had.
Very plainly the fellow was buy
ing for somebody in addition to him- j
self. His food items were double j
and triple the needs of one man, and j
he bought cartridges for two rides, a
Savage .303 and a standard Mann
licher-Schoenauer.
Was he buying for some other
trapper or crony of his? The items
proved lie was not. Cigarettes In
cans of five hundred each, a radio,
a score of unnecessaries that cost
heavily—no trapper would ever pur
chase those things. Tills unknown
whom LeNoir was buying for had
the luxury tastes of a city man and
plenty of money to indulge them.
