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Sandy Macdougal, who, by the way, afterwards discovered he was the main beneficiary in Acey Smith’s will, insisted on going up alone to recover the packsack of the Big Boss. What he found it to contain he told to no living being, but those contents threw a light on another weird phase of the protagonist soul of the Timber Pirate. In the pack, neatly parcelled, were: a suit of coloured blanket-cloth trimmed with buck-skin lacing, a pair of beaded shoe-packs, necklaces of wolves’ teeth, a wig of long, coarse black hair with a purple band around its crown holding a single eagle’s feather at the back, a bottle of stain that dyed the skin a copper hue, a stick of blood-red grease-paint and a solution for quickly washing the stain and the grease-paint from the face and hands.
Acey Smith who had been Alexander Carlstone was also Ogima Bush the Medicine Man!