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134 dug a burned, charred thingy which they buried in a hole scooped in the gravel of the bar. "Soapy White's score had been paid in full. But, whether by accident, by the hands of the Mooseheads who had returned for liquor during the days of the siege, by the avenging hand of the Yellow Knives as they swooped down the valley to the rescue of the Kloshe Tenas Tyee, or by the retributive hand of Ick Far, who followed in the space of a day, will never be known. For no investigation was conducted by the Mounted. And Ick Far, man of silence and mystery, stares gloomily into the distance—thinking his own thoughts.