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Updated: June 9, 2025
At four o'clock that chill, wind-blown morning King began the day. He saw that Gloria was awake and sitting up, looking straight ahead of her. He gave no sign of having noted her, but busied himself in a swift, silent sort of way with fire-building and breakfast preparation. Gloria, in turn, saw him; she experienced aloof wonder at the look on his face. He was haggard; his mouth was set and hard.
Tarrant half carried her up to his room, made a light, and fell to his knees at fire-building. 'Let me do it, Nancy exclaimed. 'Let me wait upon you 'If you don't sit still and keep quiet, you'll make me angry in earnest. 'Then you're not really angry with me? I couldn't help it. 'No, I'm afraid you couldn't, Tarrant muttered cheerlessly. 'I wanted to tell you that Mary will be our friend.
But, once he had taken them over, he began to resent Grant's easy relinquishment; it rankled him to realize how willingly the other allowed him to do the cooking, the dish-washing, the fire-building, the bed-making. Little monotonies of this kind form the hardest part of winter travel, they are the rocks upon which friendships founder and partnerships are wrecked.
But the fact became ever more evident that the darkness would overtake him before he could reach the cabin. But now, curiously, he dreaded the thought of pausing and making a fire. Partly he feared with the age-old fear that lay buried deep in every cell the long, bitter night without shelter, food or blankets; but even the labor of fire-building appalled his spirit.
She went swiftly to her cabin, put on her warmest clothing, and, as Bill had showed her, rolled a compact pack for her back. She took a little package of food nourishing chocolate and dried meat the whisky flask that had been her salvation the night of the river experience, and a stub of candle for fire-building, tying them firmly in the caribou robe.
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