about noon
When he got to the camp he expected to find Bill waiting for him , but nary a sign of Bill could he find . `` This was n't su ` prisin ' considerin ' his own luck , but somehow it made Big Frank uneasy . He hit the trail ` fore daylight the next morning and didna stop to look at traps , but just made tracks watching out for some sign of Bill . Long about noon he found him by a deadfall alongside of a bar . Of course the critter was dead , and Bill would have been if he had to lay there much longer . Seems in resetting the deadfall the lever with which he was raising the ` fall ' log broke , and somehow Bill got one leg under it and there he was caught in his own trap and with a broken leg to boot . Lucky for Bill it was early in the season , or he would have frozen to death long ` fore Frank got there .