I think he knew he wouldn't get through, and it was only because of the woman he held on so tight." Seaforth shivered a little, as his fancy called up the scene.

The starving man crouching half-frozen with the paddle clenched in stiffened fingers had watched those trees slide by him, knowing that on their speed depended his fast-failing chance of life.

He had, Seaforth fancied, stared at the crawling boulders with despair in his dimming eyes, and the weary man turned towards his comrade almost savagely.
"Can't you think of anything a little more pleasant ?" he said.
Alton smiled gravely.

"It comes to all of us one day, and the trail of the treasure-seeker leads most often to the unknown hunting grounds," he said.

"We have got to keep faith with Jimmy.