It struck him suddenly how well fitted he was for work of this sort.

All the work he had ever done, except for his few years in school, had been in the open.

All the leisure he had ever been able to obtain had been given to his ruling passion for hunting and fishing.

Love of the wild had been born in Jean.

At this moment he experienced a grim assurance of what his instinct and his training might accomplish if directed to a stern and daring end.