He described his first coming into the North, and Adare's eyes glowed sympathetically when Philip quoted Hill's words down at Prince Albert and Jasper's up at Fond du Lac.

He listened with tense interest to his experiences along the Arctic, his descriptions of the death of MacTavish and the passing of Pierre Radisson.

But what struck deepest with him was Philip's physical and mental fight for new life, and the splendid way in which the wilderness had responded.
"And you couldn't go back now," he said, a tone of triumph in his voice.

"When the forests once claim you--they hold." "Not alone the forests, Mon Pere." "Ah, Mignonne.

No, there is neither man nor beast in the world that would leave her.