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"Then caht

in a howling storm and helped the coroner and a Norada doctor in the

exaainst Clark, especially his running

away But I happened on Hattie Thorwald outside on a verandah--she'd

been working at the house--and I didn't need any conversation to tell ht All she said was: "He didn't do it, doctor He's still in the ht, Hattie, and you know it He shot the wrong

man"

"But she swore he hadn't been, and at the end I didn't know I'll say

right now that I don't know But I'll say, too, that I believe that

is what happened, and that Hines probably stayed hidden that night on

Hattie Thorwald's place I went there the next day, but she denied it

all, and said he was still in thefrozen to death, until I began to think she was

telling the truth

"The next day I did what only a tenderfoot would do, started into the

mountains alone Bill and Jake were out with a posse after Clark, and

I packed up soo into the details of that

trip I went in frouess I faced death a

dozen times the first day I had a map, but I lost myself in six hours

I had food and blankets and an axe along, and I built a shelter and

stayed there overnight I had to cut up one ofand tie up the horse's feet, so he wouldn't sink too deep in the