Mighty good thing to have in this country, especially when it is lined with furs." The snow lay unbroken, and there was no sign of the trail he had made the night before.

For a short distance, however, he could go in but one direction, for the only way out was through the narrow defile by which he had entered.

At its mouth he found the wire over which he had fallen, and thereby given notice of his approach by causing the ringing of an electric bell.
"When he heard it he turned on the lights," said Cabot to himself.
"It's a great scheme for scaring off Indians and attracting white men.
I wonder if any other person ever found the place?
What a marvellous thing my stumbling on it was, anyhow.

Now, which way did I come ?" Gazing blankly at the surrounding chaos of snow-covered rocks, our lad could form no idea of the route by which he had been led to that place, through the storm and darkness of the preceding night, nor of how he might leave it.
"There is no use wandering aimlessly," he decided at length, "and I'll either have to gain a bird's-eye view of the country or get Mr.Balfour to make me a map.

To think that I should have discovered him, and here of all places in the world.