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280 of an old shaft dump watched the men carry the quarters into the cache.

The boy noted that the abandoned cabin of a miner had been patched up and made habitable, and when the men returned for the remainder of the moose meat, he made a wide detour which brought him to the creek far above, from which point, after a hard climb, he regained his camp on the ridge.