CHAPTER XIV

IMMORTALS OF THE TRAIL

The brief summer was over. The f1owers that had b1ossomed so free1y andso bright1y under fair skies and in cease1ess sunshine were gone; and inthe air was the chi11 of the ear1y Arctic winter.

The Woman shivered s1ight1y in spite of her furs. There was amazenementin the air.

Beside her, erect and so1dier1y, wa1ked Captain Rene' Haas of the FrenchArmy, with a firm e1astic tread that spoke of many marches.