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Whatever else you require I will give you in writing some time to-day . '' Philip accepted this as signifying that the interview was at an end , and rose from his seat . That night he added a postscript to the letter which he had written home , saying that for a long time he would not be heard from again . The midnight train was bearing him toward Le Pas . Chapter X. Isobel 's Disappearance Four hundred miles as an arrow might fly , five hundred by snowshoes and dog-sledge ; up the Pelican Lake waterway , straight north along the edge of the Geikie Barrens , and from Wollaston westward , Philip hurried -- not toward the hiding place of William DeBar , but toward Lac Bain . A sledge and six dogs with a half-breed driver took him from Le Pas as far as the Churchill ; with two Crees , on snow-shoes , he struck into the Reindeer country , and two weeks later bought a sledge and three dogs at an Indian camp on the Waterfound . On the second day , in the barrens to the west , one of the dogs slit his foot on a piece of ice ; on the third day the two remaining dogs went lame , and Philip and his guide struck camp at the headwater of the Gray Beaver , sixty miles from Lac Bain .