ABSTRACT
Salem Alan was a Vermont man, who had paused in his wandering on the Ridge because he took a fancy to one of the five Bullett sisters. He built a shack in the woods on North Mountain, and he lived on game and what he could get for beaver pelts, when he found them. Then he married Nancy Bullett and they lived on game. The only thing he appeared to know anything about was hunting, and along with his red setter, Duklik, after the local Indian chief, he could be found anywhere and everywhere, prowling after game. Duklik was the best hunting dog on the Ridge, and thereby he came into the business of the Hessian. He and his dog meandered through the woods, up from the great swamp for perhaps a mile to the edge of Raymond Heather's place, and there along the line of the stone wall that was Heather's boundary.
