We were like Light and Darkness
and with the light gone how deep was the darkness. Once I had
thought I stood up beside him, but in what a school had I learned
that I only reached to his feet. And now all my effort, though it
might achieve that which he would be glad and proud of, could never
bring him back.
I must go back to the men at once; and leaving Mr. and Mrs. Ford I
slipped down the hill again, and out along the little stream across
the cove. They came to meet me when they saw me coming and Heaven
alone knows how inadequate were the words with which I tried to
thank them. We came up the hill together now, and soon the tents
were pitched out among the willows. As I watched them from the
post window busy about their new camping ground, it was with a
feeling of genuine loneliness that I realised that I should not
again be one of the little party.
Later came the reckoning, which may be summed up as follows:--
_Length of Journey_:--576 miles from post to post (with 30 miles
additional to Ungava Bay covered later in the post yacht Lily).
_Time_:--June 27th to August 27th. Forty-three days of actual
travelling, eighteen days in camp.
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