And he would find Marette Radisson! Yes, even though she lived at Barracks at Fort Simpson, he would find her! And after that?
The question blurred all other questions in his mind.

There were many answers to it.
Knowing that it would be fatal to his scheme if he were found on his feet, he returned to his bed.

The flush of his exertion and excitement was still in his face when Doctor Cardigan came half an hour later.
Within the next few minutes he put Cardigan more at his ease than he had been during the preceding day and night.

It was, after all, an error which made him happier the more he thought about it, he told the surgeon.

He admitted that at first the discovery that he was going to live had horrified him.