In 3 sentences: Kram was a dog owned by a wandering woodman who sold him to a gamekeeper named Hopp. However, when Kram's former master, the leader of a band of thieves named Yellow-skin, encountered Kram in the woods years later, Kram was torn between the two men he had bonded with. This led to a confrontation where Yellow-skin was killed, but Kram was left homeless and wandering after betraying the trust of both former masters.