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1fended factor.They would be received with severe and impressive dignity, would very likely be kept waiting for several days for an interview with the chief. When admitted to his presence their business would be curtly and sternly demanded of them. Then a great silence would prevail; not a word would be said perhaps for half an hour or more. Finally a principal man would rise in his place and mournfully lay before the fador the unhappy condition of his people, carefully refraining from mentioning what he and the fador and everybody else knew was the secret of the wHole trouble. Then the factor upon his part would curtly tell them what they all very well knew, that at such a time and place a white trapper had been robbed of his furs and outfit, and that until these had been returned and the criminals given up for pun