Radway returned to camp by the 6th of January.

He went on snowshoes over the entire job; and then sat silently in the office smoking "Peerless" in his battered old pipe.

Dyer watched him amusedly, secure in his grievance in case blame should be attached to him.

The jobber looked older.

The lines of dry good-humor about his eyes had subtly changed to an expression of pathetic anxiety.