He had heard a great deal about DeBar, the cleverest criminal in all the northland, and whom no man or combination of men had been clever enough to catch.

And now this man was near Lac la Biche, in the Churchill and Lac Bain country.

It he could get permission from MacGregor to go after DeBar his own difficulty would be settled in the easiest possible way.

The assignment would take him for a long and indefinite time into the north.

It would take him back to Isobel Becker.
He went immediately to his room upon reaching the barracks, and wrote out his request to MacGregor.