Chapter 15
Those who are curious about the period which followed during
which the title "Le Rouge" was forgotten and he became known only
as "Red" Pierre through all the mountain-desert, can hear the tales
of his doing from the analysts of the ranges. This story has to do
only with his struggle with McGurk.
The gap of six years which occurs here is due to the fact that
during that period McGurk vanished from the mountain-desert. He
died away from the eyes of men and in their minds he became that
tradition which lives still so vividly, the tradition of the pale
face, the sneering, bloodless lips, and the hand which never
failed.
During this lapse of time there were many who claimed that he
had ridden off into some lonely haunt and died of the wound which
he received from Pierr
