He would accompany her and the colonel to Churchill.

They would be together for days, and at the end of that time-- He laughed low and joyously, and for a spell he urged the dogs into a swifter pace.

That he had correctly estimated the speed of those ahead of him he was convinced, when, two hours later, he came upon the remains of their mid-day camp-fire, nine or ten miles from Lac Bain.

It was dark when he reached this point.

There were glowing embers still in the fire, and these he stirred into life, adding armfuls of dry wood to the flames.