SURPRISED AND CAPTURED "Twenty paces to a hackmatack tree, north," read Jamie.

He drew from his pocket the little compass Doctor Joe had given him, and took the direction.
"That's the way she goes, the way the needle points," he said to himself.

"I'll pace un off.

North is the way she goes first." But an obstacle presented itself.

The northern face of the rock was irregular, and from end to end fully thirty feet in length.