When he turned to come back, with fifty paces between them, she smiled at him and he waved his hand at her.

He asked her a great many questions while he prepared their dinner.

The Nest, he learned, was a free-trading place, and Hauck was its proprietor.

He was surprised when he learned that he was not on Firepan Creek after all.

The Firepan was over the range, and there were a good many Indians to the north and west of it.
Miners came down frequently from the Taku River country and the edge of the Yukon, she said.