The Legal Prosecution to Recover their Furs, or punish Gaut, the supposed
Criminal.—The unsatisfactory Result, and Gaut's dark menaces of Revenge.
CHAPTER XVII.
Gaut's Efforts to get the old Company off into the Forest, on a Spring
Expedition.—All refuse but Elwood and Son, who conclude to go.—Love
Entanglements, and the boding Fears of Mrs. Elwood.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Opening of Spring in the Settlement.—The Trappers fail to Return.—Gaut comes without them.—The Alarm and Suspicions of the Settlers that he has Murdered, the Elwoods.—The Circumstantial Evidence.
CHAPTER XIX.
The attempt to Arrest Gaut.—His retreat to a Cave in the Mountain.—His final Dislodgement and Capture, for Trial and Examination.
CHAPTER XX.
Retrospect of the Adventures of Gaut and the Elwoods.—The Murder of Mark
Elwood, and the Wounding of Claud, by Gaut.—Claud's life saved by
Fluella.