He had slept in a shelter of spruce boughs.

And--and--par les mille cornes du diable if he had even brushed the snow out! His great moccasin tracks were all about among the tracks of the wolves, and they were big as the spoor of a monster bear.

I searched everywhere for something that he might have left, and I found--at last--a rabbit snare." Pierre Breault's eyes, and not his words--and the curious twisting and interlocking of his long slim fingers about the caribou-skin bag in his hand stirred Philip with the thrill of a tense and mysterious anticipation, and as he waited, uttering no word, Pierre's fingers opened the sack, and he said: "A rabbit snare, M'sieu, which had dropped from his pocket into the snow--" In another moment he had given it into Philip's hands.

The oil lamp was hung straight above them.

Its light flooded the table between them, and from Philip's lips, as he stared at the snare, there broke a gasp of amazement.