. A hunt on snow shoes . supposedIndian when he stood over the carcass of thedeer. The lad was given some fifteen minutes inwhich to scrutinize this party, and by the endof that time he had reached the important con-clusion that he had entered a den of rogues, whohad gathered an extraordinary amount ofplunder about them. Furthermore, while theyappeared to the outside world as Indians, theywere only white men disguised as such. This conclusion explained a number of thingswhich otherwise would not have been so readilyunderstood. The appearance of these men,hunting through the upper Maine forests
. A hunt on snow shoes . supposedIndian when he stood over the carcass of thedeer. The lad was given some fifteen minutes inwhich to scrutinize this party, and by the endof that time he had reached the important con-clusion that he had entered a den of rogues, whohad gathered an extraordinary amount ofplunder about them. Furthermore, while theyappeared to the outside world as Indians, theywere only white men disguised as such. This conclusion explained a number of thingswhich otherwise would not have been so readilyunderstood. The appearance of these men,hunting through the upper Maine forests, paint-ed and clothed as red-skins, and their brokenaccent when talking to strangers, were intendedto make it appear that they belonged to thePenobscot, or some other tribe of Indians nearlyextinct. Scarcely any one meeting them in thewilderness would have the least doubt uponthis point. But they were burglars and housebreakers,who had fixed upon this retreat as the one leastlikely to be disturbed by the minions of the. He had entered a den of rogues. THE BULLS-EYE 291 law. With ordinary care it was hardly pos-sible—or at least probable—that their hiding-place would be suspected. Using the cavern under the falls as head-quarters, they raided through the lower coun-try, sometimes alone, or in couples, and quitefrequently in parties of three or four. These traveled pretty well to the southward,and no doubt had committed depredations inPortland, Bangor, Augusta and other widely-separated cities. In these places they ap-peared, so far a,s they were compelled to appear,in the guise of their own race and color, andthen, making a rapid retreat northward, andchanging themselves into noble red men, theirgeneral plan of operations will be understood. Clarence Landon had heard of this band atintervals during a year past, and indeed his ownhome had been once plundered by burglars,who, beyond a doubt, belonged to the sameparty. He knew, furthermore, that the civilauthorities in differe
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