His vague purpose was to cross the American Continent to San Francisco, and there to take passage for the high latitudes north of the Yukon River.
* * * * * When Stephen began to regain consciousness her first sensation was one of numbness.

She was cold in the back, and her feet did not seem to exist; but her head was hot and pulsating as though her brain were a living thing.

Then her half-open eyes began to take in her surroundings.

For another long spell she began to wonder why all around her was green.

Then came the inevitable process of reason.