He had, however, pledged himself to look for the lead, and that, at least, he meant to do.

The search, in the meanwhile, was sufficient to occupy him, as he was one who escaped a good many troubles by confining his attention to the task in hand.
"Well," he said, dismissing the matter from his mind, "I'll turn out at sun-up, and when we've had breakfast we'll go on again." He lay down near the snapping fire and, drawing up the blanket to keep the rain from his face, was sound asleep in a few minutes.

Grenfell, however, sat awake for a long time, shivering in the whirling smoke, and now and then glancing curiously at his companion..