Before winter, in the year of Tutt’s incarceration, Murdock erected a twenty-foot high block-wall of granite. The wall completely surrounded the mine holding Tutt, Wagner, et al. Murdock knew they would tunnel out eventually, but they would have to tunnel more to get out of the walled in area. In various places around the wall, he placed engraved stones. The stones were all the same and gave the warning: “Behind this wall are the most despicable people alive. Call them anything you want, but, to me, pirates, thieves, and murderers seems to fit the best. Leave them. Everyone else will be better off.”
After enclosing the mine, Murdock refused to leave the “Oomah Plateau”, as he called it, for anything except escorting one of his tribe, or helping Doctor Harris and Annie.
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