Could he have been mistaken?
Had he looked at her with eyes heated by his own love, fired by jealousy?
If she had smiled upon him instead of upon Bucky Nome, if her cheeks had flushed at his words, would he have thought that she had done wrong?
As if in answer to his own questions, he saw again the white, tense face of the colonel, her husband, and he laughed harshly.
For several hours Philip remained in the shelter of Hodges' office.

With early dawn he stole out into the forest, and a little later made his appearance in camp, saying that he had spent the night at Le Pas.

Not until an hour later was it discovered that Hodges had been killed, the guard made a prisoner, and that Thorpe and his wife were gone.

Philip at once took charge of affairs and put a strain on his professional knowledge by declaring that Thorpe had undoubtedly fled into the North.
Early in the afternoon he started in pursuit.
A dozen miles north of the Wekusko camp he swung at right angles to the west, traveled fifteen miles, then cut a straight course south.

It was three days later before he showed up at Le Pas, and learned that no one had seen or heard of Thorpe and his wife.