It was a game paradise, and the snow-shoe rabbit abounded in thousands.

As a consequence, the lynxes were thick, and Henri built his trapping shack, and then returned to the post to wait until the first snows fell, when he would come back with his team, supplies and traps.
And up from the south, at this same time, there was slowly working his way by canoe and trail a young university zoologist who was gathering material for a book on _The Reasoning of the Wild_.

His name was Paul Weyman, and he had made arrangements to spend a part of the winter with Henri Loti, the half-breed.

He brought with him plenty of paper, a camera and the photograph of a girl.

His only weapon was a pocket-knife.
And meanwhile Kazan and Gray Wolf found the home they were seeking in a thick swamp five or six miles from the cabin that Henri Loti had built..