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He would discover more when he became a part of the camp on the Wekusko ; that is , if the half-breed 's warning held any significance at all , and he believed that it did . Anyway , he would prepare for developments . So he went to a gun-shop , bought a long-barreled six-shooter and a holster , and added to it a hunting-knife like that he had seen carried by Croisset . It was near midnight when he boarded the work-train and dawn was just beginning to break over the wilderness when it stopped at Etomami , from which point he was to travel by hand-car over the sixty miles of new road that had been constructed as far north as Le Pas . For three days the car had been waiting for the new chief of the road , but neither Gregson nor Thorne was with it . `` Mr. Gregson is waiting for you at Le Pas , '' said one of the men who had come with it . `` Thorne is at Wekusko . ''