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`` Now do n't get cold feet . '' Harkness could be maddeningly patronizing when he chose . `` Leave it to me . I 'll take you a short cut , and we 'll eat lunch in a cabin to-morrow noon . '' But noon of the next day found Harkness still plodding up the river with the dogs close at his heels . The hills to the northward were growing higher , and Folsom 's general knowledge of direction told him that they were in danger of going too far . `` I think the Imnachuck is over there , '' said he .