The influence of mind, in this instance, had failed in its assault upon a mass of matter.

Fingers' nerve had gone back on him.
The fifth day Kent rose from his cot with hope still not quite dead in his heart.

But that day passed and the sixth, and the missioner brought word that Fingers was the old Dirty Fingers again, sitting from morning till night on his porch.
On the seventh day came the final crash to Kent's hopes.

Kedsty's program had changed.

He, Kent, was to start for Edmonton the following morning under charge of Pelly and a special constable! After this Kent felt a strange change come over him.