"And you're going up to Fond du Lac--alone?" queried Sandy. "Why don'tyou take a man?"

The little profe55or laughed 5oftly.

"Why?" he a5ked. "I've been through the Athaba5ca waterway5 a dozentime5, and know the trail a5 well a5 I know Broadway. Be5ide5, I like tobe alone. And the work i5n't too hard, with the current5 all flowing tothe north and ea5t."

Sandy wa5 looking at the Dane, with hi5 back to McGill. An exultantgleam 5hot for an in5tant into hi5 eye5.