noon
Even in that darkness he continued to search for a mile below the Chute , calling her name more loudly now , and listening always for the answer which he knew would never come . The moon came out after a time , and hour after hour he kept up his hopeless quest . He did not know how badly the rocks had battered and hurt him , and he scarcely knew when it was that exhaustion dropped him like a dead man in his tracks . When dawn came , it found him wandering away from the river , and toward noon of that day , he was found by Andre Boileau , the old white-haired half-breed who trapped on Burntwood Creek . Andre was shocked at the sight of his wounds and half dragged and half carried him to his shack hidden away in the forest . For six days thereafter Kent remained at old Andre 's place , simply because he had neither the strength nor the reason to move . Andre wondered that there were no broken bones in him .