Now that the strain and excitement were over, she looked white and tired, but her face was set in hard, stern lines, which for the time seemed to add years to her age.
"It is dreadful that you should have to go out at night like that.
Wouldn't to-morrow have done as well ?" asked Mrs.Burton in a tone of distress.
"No," replied Katherine slowly, as she wrestled with an obstinate fastening of her coat, keeping her gaze carefully on the ground the while.

"We were almost too late as it was.

A wolf had found out the cache and was beginning to tear the packages to pieces, in spite of my care in turning the hand sledge upside down on the top of them." Oily Dave rose to his feet with a jerky movement.

"I think we had best be moving now," he said gruffly.

"Perhaps you'd lend us a couple of the dogs to help us down to Seal Cove; we'll give 'em a good feed when we get there.