It was part of a letter written to Rossland.

He sent me some books while I was on the ship, and inadvertently left a page of this letter in one of them as a marker.

It was really quite unimportant, when one read the whole of it.

The other half of the page is in the toe of the slipper which you did not return to Ellen McCormick.

You know that is the conventional thing for a woman to do--to use paper for padding in a soft-toed slipper." He wanted to shout; he wanted to throw up his arms and laugh as Tautuk and Amuk Toolik and a score of others had laughed to the beat of the tom-toms last night, not because he was amused, but out of sheer happiness.