A. M. Chisholm

“ And it was not so much the loneliness, for I was sure that there were a dozen human beings within as many miles. The sensation was more as if something impended, as if the darkness spied on me with unfriendly eyes. Perhaps my empty stomach was mainly responsible. But as I drew near the shore I was as jumpy as a wild animal on a strange range. ”

“ Hayes came back with Ballou and Siwash George. But, like Nootka, the latter gave no evidence that he remembered me. Ballou greeted me without the least embarrassment, and went straight to the point.
"Hayes tells me," he said, "'that you all think we double-crossed you—that we was tryin' to steal them furs. Is that so, Bob?"
"Of course it is," I replied. "What else could we think? You took us to the wrong lake. You made a bluff at prospecting to get us out of the way. And then, when we found out about this lake by accident, Louis took a stranger's canoe and came back to warn you. ”

“ They left me on the shore, and they were going to pick me up when they got the canoes. They didn't do it, and I haven't had any grub since, except a fool hen and a porky."
"Well, we'll fix that grub proposition as soon as we get to camp," he said. "There's been a mistake all round. There wasn't no call for them to take the canoes, though the way it must have looked to them I dunno's I blame them much. That Frenchman's a fool. It's him that's to blame for the whole thing. I told Tom at the time, when Louis showed up, that one of us had better take a canoe and go downriver to find you. ”