Donald MacDonald's startling assertion that Mortimer FitzHugh had been in the camp, and that Joanne's dream was not a dream, but reality, brought a gasp of astonishment and disbelief from Aldous.

Before he had recovered sufficiently from his amazement to speak, MacDonald was answering the question in his mind.
"I woke quicker'n you, Johnny," he said.

"She was just coming out of the tepee, an' I heard something running off through the brush.

I thought mebby it was a wolverine, or a bear, an' I didn't move until she cried out your name an' you jumped up.

If she had seen a bear in the fire-glow she wouldn't have thought it was Mortimer FitzHugh, would she?
It's possible, but it ain't likely, though I do say it's mighty queer why he should be in this camp alone.