If any more men come, send them on after me.

And do have a kettle of water boiling, so that we can give Miss Selincourt a cup of coffee or something when we get her back here," said Katherine, then hurried away, the coil of rope flung over her arm, the dog following close at her heels.
It was a long way over a rough track to the rocks.

The easier and shorter process would have been to go round by boat, if only there had been quieter water and less wind; but she knew very well that it would take more strength than her one pair of arms possessed to row a boat through such a sea, so she was forced to take the landward route.
When she reached the fish-flakes it was as much as she could do to stand against the wind, and in crossing the headland her pace was of the slowest.

She had expected to find someone up here, the portage men perhaps, or some Indians attending to the hundreds and thousands of fish which were spread out drying in the sun and wind; but there was no one.

She did not know, of course, that Mr.
Selincourt had passed that way half an hour before, and had summoned the portage men to help him to search for Mary among the rocks.