Why did you come up here in the beginning ?" "It's rather a long story and I reckon it starts with a canoe trip I made in the North one fall.

I had then begun a business in which family influence could give me a lift.

Well, it was Indian summer; mosquitoes dying off, lakes and rivers all asleep in the pale sunshine.

As we paddled and portaged through the woods I felt I'd got into another world.

Wanted to stop forever and began to hate the cities; the feeling wasn't new, but I hadn't got it really strong till then.