"It's all so wonderful that I want you to know the end of it, and how happily it has turned out for me--and the little woman waiting for me back home.

It was I and not Falkner who cried out just before you turned the lamp-wick down.

A letter had fallen from his coat pocket, and it was one of my letters--sent through my agent.

Understand?
I sent you for the ice, and while you were gone I told him who I was, and he told me why I had never heard from him, and why he was in Pierre Thoreau's cabin.

My agent had sent him north with five hundred dollars as a first payment.
To cut a long story short, he got into a card game in Prince Albert--as the best of us do at times--and as a result become mixed up in a quarrel, in which he pretty nearly killed a man.