Such was briefly their story. Its truth was corroborated by the discovery of the bear's carcass, by the testimony of the tunnel-man, who found his larder mysteriously ransacked in his buried cabin, and, above all, by the long white tongue that for many months hung from the ledge into the valley. Nobody thought the lanky Julian a hero,--least of all himself. Nobody suspected that Jackson Tribbs's treatment of a “slide” had been gathered from experiments in his father's “runs”--and he was glad they did not. The master's pardon obtained, the three truants cared little for the opinion of Hemlock Hill. They knew THEMSELVES, that was enough. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tales of Trail and Town, by Bret Harte