If it was intended as a warning, why had not the inspector given him more detail?
During the hour in which he was preparing for his journey he racked his brain for some clew to the situation.

The task which he was about to perform seemed simple enough.

A man named Thorpe had attempted murder at Wekusko.

He was already a prisoner, and he was to bring him down.

The biggest coward in Saskatchewan, or a man from a hospital bed, could do this much, and yet-- He read the inspector's words over and over again.