165

XIII. SURPRISED AND CAPTURED 179

XIV. THE TWO DESPERADOS 192

XV. MISSING! 198

XVI. BOUND AND HELPLESS 206

XVII. LOST IN A BLIZZARD 220

XVIII. A PLACE TO "BIDE" 232

XIX. SEARCHING THE WHITE WILDERNESS 240

XX. "WOLVES!" YELLED ANDY 251

XXI. THE ALARM IN THE NIGHT 259

XXII. THE IMMUTABLE LAW OF GOD 268

ILLUSTRATIONS

IT WAS DR. JOE BEYOND A DOUBT! _Frontispiece_

Facing Page
STRETCHED UPON THE FLOOR LAY LEM HORN 70

ON THE RIGHT SEETHED THE DEVIL'S TEA
KETTLE 104

"YOU STAND WHERE YOU IS AND DROP YOUR
GUN!" 132

IT WAS A FIGHT TO THE DEATH 260

Troop One of the Labrador

CHAPTER I

DOCTOR JOE, SCOUTMASTER

"Doctor Joe! Doctor Joe's comin'! He just turned the p'int!"

Jamie Angus burst into the cabin at The Jug breathlessly shouting this
joyful news, and then rushed out again with David and Andy at his
heels.

"Oh, Doctor Joe! It can't be Doctor Joe, now! Can it, Pop? It must be
some one else Jamie sees! It can't be Doctor Joe, _what_ever!"
exclaimed Margaret in a great flutter of excitement.

"Jamie's keen at seein'! He'd know anybody as far as he can see un!"
assured Thomas, no less excited at the news than was Margaret. "But
'tis strange that he's comin' back so soon!"

Of course Margaret, who was laying the table for supper, must needs
follow the boys; and Thomas, who was leaning over the wash basin
removing the grime of the day's toil, snatched the towel from its peg
behind the door and, drying his hands as he ran, sacrificing dignity
to haste, followed Margaret, who had joined the three boys at the end
of the jetty which served as a boat landing.

A skiff had just entered the narrow channel which connected The Jug,
as the bight where the Anguses lived was called, with the wider waters
of Eskimo Bay. There could be no doubt, even at that distance, that
the tall man standing aft and manipulating the long sculling oar, was
Doctor Joe. As the little group gathered on the jetty he took off his
hat and waved it high above his head. It was Doctor Joe beyond a
doubt! The boys waved their caps and shouted at the top of their lusty
young lungs, Margaret, undoing her apron, waved it and added her voice
to the