It would have saved time and distance.

He was beginning to give Bram credit for a deeply mysterious strategy.

There was some definite reason why he had not made an attack with his wolves that night.

There was a reason for the wide detour around the point of timber, and there was a still more inexplicable reason why he had come back with his sledge for the meat, instead of carrying his meat to the sledge.

The caribou haunch had not weighed more than sixty or seventy pounds, which was scarcely half a burden for Bram's powerful shoulders.
In the edge of the timber, where he could secure wood for his fire, Philip began to prepare.