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Slim and Pitt immediately went after him and met him when they had gone half way across the lake , returning to camp with the discouraging news that he had not been able to find anybody on the Point . `` Was there ever such a topsy turvy day as this ? '' asked Gladys , as they sat around the glowing camp fire that night after supper . `` First Katherine gets us up at half past three on a false alarm ; we have crew practice and then go back to bed and do n't get up until nine . And things have kept happening all day until the grand climax just now . Some days stand out like that from all others as _ the _ day on which everything happened . '' Colonel Berry was a delightful talker and told many stories of his life as a guide in northwestern Canada , as well as many anecdotes of the Indians among whom he lived for some time .