Say too far 'way from man.

But that not so.

Thorne 'fraid--Gregson 'fraid--" He hunched his shoulders again as he opened the door of the big box stove which stood in the room.
Howland asked no questions, but stared about him.

Everywhere he saw evidences of the taste and one-time tenancies of the two senior engineers.

Heavy bear rugs lay on the board floor; the log walls, hewn almost to polished smoothness, were hung with half a dozen pictures; in one corner was a bookcase still filled with books, in another a lounge covered with furs, and in this side of the room was a door which Howland supposed must open into the sleeping apartment.