But how do you happen to be up here, and how have you managed to establish an electric plant in this wilderness?
Why are you masquerading as a man-wolf?
How did you lose the power of speech?
How did you become so severely wounded?
Can't you tell me some of these things ?" For answer Mr.Balfour wrote: "Perhaps, some time.

Tell first how you came here." So Cabot, forced to curb for the present his own overpowering curiosity, sat down and told of all that had happened since the departure of the man-wolf from Locked Harbour.

When he had finished he said: "And now, I ought to go outside and see if I can discover any trace of my companions, who must be awfully cut up over my disappearance.

But don't be uneasy, Mr.Balfour, I shan't go far, and whether I find them or not I shall certainly come back to stay just as long as you need me.
I hope you will sleep while I am gone, and I wish you would promise not to leave your bed, or move more than is absolutely necessary, before my return." When Cabot first stepped outside the shelter that had proved such a haven of safety to him, he was dazzled by the brilliancy of the day.
After becoming somewhat accustomed to the glare of sunlight on new-fallen snow, he turned to see what sort of a house he had just left.

To his surprise there was no house; the only suggestion of one being two windows and a door set in a wall of rock that was built at the base of a cliff.
"It is a cavern," thought Cabot, "and that is the reason the room is so easily kept warm.