He is a part of Alaska itself, and I have sometimes thought him more aloof than the mountains.

But I know him.

All northern Alaska knows Alan Holt.

He has a reindeer range up beyond the Endicott Mountains and is always seeking the last frontier." "He must be very brave." "Alaska breeds heroic men, Miss Standish." "And honorable men--men you can trust and believe in ?" "Yes." "It is odd," she said, with a trembling little laugh that was like a bird-note in her throat.

"I have never seen Alaska before, and yet something about these mountains makes me feel that I have known them a long time ago.