I'd go with you if he hadn't commanded me to remain here and nurse my head for another twenty-four hours." Philip shrugged his shoulders, and the two had little to say as they ate their dinners.

After an hour's rest he prepared a light pack and took up the doctor's trail.

Inwardly he rankled at the unusual hand which the little professor was playing in leaving Pierre's cabin with the prisoners, and yet he was confident that McGill would wait for him.

Mile after mile he traveled down the creek.

At dusk there was no sign of his new friend.