The old man opposite to him in shadow, with his back to the light, had a crouching dangerous look.
It was as though he recognised something in his son for ever lost to himself; and repulsed it, half enviously, half malignantly.
But he did not apparently resent Anderson's proposal.

He said sulkily: "Oh, I dessay you'd like to put me away.

But I'm not doddering yet." All the same he listened in silence to the plan that Anderson developed, puffing the while at the pipe which he had made Mrs.Ginnell give him.
"I shan't stay on this side," he said, at last, decidedly.

"There's a thing or two that might turn up agin me--and fellows as 'ud do me a bad turn if they come across me--dudes, as I used to know in Dawson City.

I shan't stay in Canada.