IV
A MYSTERY FOR THE POLICE
When at sixty it had occurred to Max Schimmel that, in spite of an excellent constitution, unimpaired even in eyesight, he was not likely to live more than sixty years longer, and consequently he ought to leave the wilderness and see something of people, he had brought with him many of his former companions.
Complaint now had been lodged against him so many times that, his persuasiveness with the police having lost its efficacy, his household had been greatly reduced. Still, an ocelot, a couple of muskrats, an ibis and a heron—not to mention the other lizards in
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