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"It is, of course, just possible that the man with whom your half-breed saw her was making north to the post at Lobstick Creek, and it will be as well to make an early inquiry there."

A great honour awaits us round the next corner, when the boatmen announce that they are going to make us each a lobstick.

We learn that the ethics of lobsticks is that each of these men, should Fate take him past this point again, will salute the lobstick just made and send a strong thought across the spruce-tops to us.

Should we, at any time before this journey ends, fail to make good, the men on the return voyage will cut the lobstick down.

Is it not sufficient glory to say, "On the Peace River we had a lobstick"?