Now that Jed Hawkins was dead Nada would be with the little old Missioner in whose care he had left her, and not for an instant did a doubt cloud the growing happiness of his anticipations.

Breault and the hunters of the law were the one worry that lay ahead and behind him.

If he outwitted them he would find Nada waiting for him.
Day after day they kept south and west until they struck the Thelon; and then through a country unmapped, and at times terrific in its cold and storm, they fought steadily to the frozen regions of the Dubawnt waterways.

Only once in the first three weeks did they seek human company.

This was at a small Indian camp where Jolly Roger bartered for caribou meat and moccasins for Peter's feet.