"Tolerably close on Somasco," he said.

"I think they've heard us at the mill." Then as Seaforth listened, a shout came ringing across the glinting space before them that seemed curiously still.

"Hold on.

We're coming.

Is that you and the others, Tom ?" Okanagan laughed again, and the canoe stopped amidst the ice when the paddle fell from his hand.
"It's a good deal less of us than there was when we started out," he said..