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as if they were nuggets of gold, Penne-
cuick entered the tent. ;

For an hour Pennecuick made himselt
as much at home—in a special sense of
expression—as any man but the actual
owner could be. He accomplished it,
thanks to his excellent imagination, and
did it in furtherance of a peculiar device
to which he now resorted. He lay down
in the’ bunk. He puttered around the
stove. He used the tent in every way he
could imagine the owner using it. :

Bit by bit there was pieced together in
his mind the ways of the owner in his
use of the tent. This is how he would
stand when at work at the stove. Here is
where he would take up his position if he
wanted to look at something by the light
of day. There is where he would rest his
carbine, or put down some other article of
habitual use. With this sensitive recon-
struction to guide him Pennecuick went
out and re-entered the tent, bringing with
him—in imagination—the clothes of his
victims.

First in pantomime he went through
the pockets of the garments for valuables.
Whatever these were he put into his own
pockets. Then there must have been an
assortment of small objects of little value
among the loot, which a highwayman
would throw carelessly away.

His acquired sense of how the owner
of the tent would do things therein made
Pennecuick stand just inside the entrance
as he looted the dead men’s pockets. He
came to the point when he had a handful
of valueless small objects to throw away.
Pennecuick did not leave entirely to his
imagination how this would be done.

Taking out of his own pocket a handful
of coins he waited till he achieved an ap-
proximation of the mood in which the
man he was imitating must have been
when about to throw away the part of his
loot he did not want. Much as an ac-
complished actor carries out a role he had
studied well, Pennecuick flung away his
handful of coins.

A moment later he changed roles again
and getting down on his hands and knees
he noted where his coins had fallen. If
his re-creation of the highwayman down
to the action he had just imitated was
correct, where the policeman’s coins had
fallen there should be promise of other
objects to be found.

Where Pennecuick had sown he reaped
almost at once an interesting if limited
harvest. He found an English coin, such
as a man in Canada would use only as a
pocket piece; and he found a key from
which he deduced a lock of a kind little
used in the Yukon region.

He spent half the day in and about the
tent before he was forced to give up that
trail for the time being; his utmost efforts
had brought him not another strand for
the noose he was preparing for X, the un-
known.

He went back to the straightened trail
on the cut-off. Here he looked at the
stumps of the cottonwoods that had been

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