I was rushing it to an end at fever heat when--you came." He saw the troubled look in her eyes, and hastened to add: "Let us not talk about that manuscript, Ladygray.

Some day I will let you read it, and then you will understand why your coming has not hurt it.

At first I was unreasonably disturbed because I thought that I must finish it within a week from to-day.

I start out on a new adventure then--a strange adventure, into the North." "That means--the wild country ?" she asked.

"Up there in the North--there are no people ?" "An occasional Indian, perhaps a prospector now and then," he said.