Carl Lomen, following on the next ship, would join him at Unalaska.

They would go on to Nome together.

After that he would spend a week or so in the Peninsula, then go up the Kobuk, across the big portage to the Koyukuk and the far headwaters of the north, and still farther--beyond the last trails of civilized men--to his herds and his people.

And Stampede Smith would be with him.

After a long winter of homesickness it was all a comforting inducement to sleep and pleasant dreams.