The silent places : [a story] . 28 THE SILENT PLACES sniffed audibly in inquiry of what lay ahead. In-stantly, in the necessity for action, the spell mystery which had lain so long at their horizon,which but now had crept in, threatening to smotherthem, rolled back to its accustomed place. Thenorth withheld her hand. Before them was another camp, one that had beenlong used. A conical tepee or wigwam, a wide spacecleared of snow, much debris, racks and scaffoldsfor the accommodation of supplies, all these attestedlong occupancy. Sam jerked the cover from his rifle, and cast ahasty gla
The silent places : [a story] . 28 THE SILENT PLACES sniffed audibly in inquiry of what lay ahead. In-stantly, in the necessity for action, the spell mystery which had lain so long at their horizon,which but now had crept in, threatening to smotherthem, rolled back to its accustomed place. Thenorth withheld her hand. Before them was another camp, one that had beenlong used. A conical tepee or wigwam, a wide spacecleared of snow, much debris, racks and scaffoldsfor the accommodation of supplies, all these attestedlong occupancy. Sam jerked the cover from his rifle, and cast ahasty glance at the nipple to see if it was jumped forward and snatched aside the open-ing into the wigwam. Not at home! said he. Gone, corrected Sam, pointing to a fresh trailbeyond. At once the two men turned their attention tothis. After some difficulty they established the factof a three-dog team. Testing the consistency of thesnow they proved a heavy load on the toboggan. Im afraid that means hes gone for good, Tki|,|.K.(^i).|-.;„.,.|,-,! ,, Dick juni|)ed fonvard and snatched aside theoj)ening into the wifjwani CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 229 A further examination of camp corroboratedthis. The teepee had been made double, with thespace between the two walls stuffed with moss, soevidently it had been built as permanent winterquarters. The fact of its desertion at this time ofyear confirmed the reasoning as to the identityof its occupant and the fact of his having beenwarned by the dead Chippewa. Skulls of animalsindicated a fairly prosperous fur season. But theskulls of animals, a broken knife, a pile of balsam-boughs, and the deserted wigwam were all that re-mained. Jingoss had taken with him his traps,his pelts, his supplies. Thats a good thing, concluded Sam, amighty good thing. It shows he aint much dont suspect were anywheres near him; onlythat it aint very healthy to spend the winter in thispart of the country. If hed thought we was close,he wouldnt
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