That was just a little matter between friends.

You'd do as much for me if the chance came." "But you've done it already, Great Bear." Willet said something more in deprecation, and picking up the canoe, put it in a better place.

Its weight was nothing to him, and Robert noticed with admiration the play of the great arms and shoulders.

Seen now upon the land and standing at his full height Willet was a giant, proportioned perfectly, a titanic figure fitted by nature to cope with the hardships and dangers of the wilderness.
"I'm thinking stronger than ever that this is good deer country," he said.

"It has all the looks of it, since they can find here the food they like, and it hasn't been ranged over for a long time by white man or red.