Always they make expeditions." Chayne drew no satisfaction from that statement.

Garratt Skinner and his friend would make many expeditions from which both men would return in safety.

Garratt Skinner was no blunderer.

And when at the last he returned alone with some flawless story of an accident in which his friend had lost his life, no one would believe but that here was another mishap, and another name to be added to the Alpine death-roll.
"To what mountain have they gone ?" Chayne asked.
"To no mountain to-day.

They cross the Col du Geant, monsieur, to Courmayeur.