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Then he turned west and trotted his mount down to the hatchery, where he saw Ralph Wier, the Superintendent, standing outside the lodge talking to his assistant, George Fry

When Lannis rode up on the opposite side of the brook, he called across to Wier: "You haven't seen anything of any crooked outfit around here, have you, Ralph? I' for that kind"

"See here," said the Superintendent, "I don't know but George Fry uys Coo"

Trooper Lannis pivotted his horse and put him to the brook with scarcely any take-off; and the splendid ani up to the door of the lodge

Fry's boyish face seeitated; he looked up at the State Trooper with the flush of tears in his gaze and pointed at the rifle Lannis carried: "If I'd had that," he said excitedly, "I'd have brought in a crook, you bet!"

"Where did you see him?" inquired Lannis

"Jest west of the Scaur, about an hour and a half ago Wier and s There's ood water -- two miles of it -- to the east, and all it needed was a fish-ladder around Scaur Falls

"So I toted in cerub last week, and I builtup a fish-way around the falls So that's how I colance at the woods "By God," he said, "I was such a fool I didn't take no rifle All I had was an axe and a few trapsI wasn't going to let the et our trout whatever you fellows say," he added defiantly, "-- and law or no law----"

"Get along with your story, young man," interrupted Lannis; "-- you can spill the rest out to the Coht, then This is the way it happened down to the Scaur I was eating lunch by the fish-stairs, looking up at 'e about anybody being nearmade me turn my headYou kno it is in the woodsI kinda felt so, black automatic pistol, and he had a bead on my belly