It was not difficult for him to picture her as the daughter of one of the factor lords of the North.

Yet this, upon closer consideration, he gave up as unreasonable.

The word "Fort" did not stand for population, and there were probably not more than fifty white people at all the posts between the Great Slave and the Arctic.

She was not one of these, or the fact would have been known at the Landing.
Neither could she be a riverman's daughter, for it was inconceivable that either a riverman or a trapper would have sent this girl down into civilization, where this girl had undoubtedly been.

It was that point chiefly which puzzled Kent.