Two trappers had come in from Churchill.

One of them was sick, and the other needed help in the building of their winter cabin.

McKay remained with them for ten days, and when he continued his journey northward his pack was stuffed with supplies, and he wore new boots and more comfortable clothes.
It was the middle of October when he found his old cabin, a thousand miles from Cragg's Ridge.

It was as he had left it three years ago.

No one had opened its door since then.