When they gained camp, Lee said: "Morgan and I are going to Bartolo with you, and also a friend of yours called Alvarez.

We nabbed him as he was trying to burn our camp about two hours before the blizzard.

Take this man to headquarters, Morgan, and keep him till I come over." Menocal's face became livid with anger and alarm.
"Let me go, damn you!" he shouted, shrilly.
Bryant waved a hand towards the engineers' shack and thither Charlie was propelled, cursing and struggling, in Morgan's firm grasp.
Entering his office, Lee closed the door, walked to the stove, and standing there produced the letter.

It was the first and only missive he had ever received from Ruth.

He gazed at the envelope and the scrawled writing on it with an impression of strangeness, but this gave way to a curiosity as to the contents.