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During the whole seventeen days of the snow-trail, MacNair scarcely addressed a word to him seemed almost oblivious to his presence. Upon the last day, with the log buildings of Fort Resolution in sight, MacNair suddenly halted the dogs and faced Corporal Ripley. "Well, what's your program?" he asked shortly. "My program," returned the other, "is to arrest Pierre Lapierre,"
I tried to bullyrag him into keeping on, but it was no go. I left him there, and Sam went back after him with a relief-party." "You left him! With his wife?" "No!" cried Ridgway. "Do I look like a man to desert a woman on a snow-trail? I took her with me." "Oh!" There was a significant silence before Eaton asked the question in his mind. "I've seen her pictures in the papers.
An' t'irty-two sleep I'm travel de snow-trail. Las' night I'm mak' my camp in de scrub cross de reever. I'm go 'sleep, an' by-m-by I'm wake up an' see you fire an' I'm com' 'long to fin' out who camp here." As she listened, Chloe's hand stole from beneath the blankets and closed softly about the fingers of the Louchoux girl. "And so you have come to live with me?" she whispered softly.
An omission for which he cursed himself roundly upon an evening, early in February when an Indian, gaunt and wide-eyed from the strain of a forced snow-trail, staggered from the black shadow of the bush into the glare of the blazing night-fires, and in a frenzied gibberish of jargon proclaimed that Bob MacNair had returned to the Northland.
Born to the snow-trail, the Louchoux girl made good time. During the month she had spent at Chloe's school she had for the first time in her life been sufficiently clothed and fed, and now with the young muscles of her body well nourished and in the pink of condition she fairly flew over the trail. Hour after hour she kept up the pace without halting.
Both Du Mont and Xavier realized that their only hope for clemency lay in their ability to aid the authorities in building up a clear case against Lapierre, and during the ten days of snow-trail that ended at Athabasca Landing each tried to outdo the other in explaining what he knew of the workings of Lapierre's intricate system.
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