Chapter 1. The Most Terrible Thing In The World
_ CHAPTER I. THE MOST TERRIBLE THING IN THE WORLD
At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization, Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil between his fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to the Commissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Regina.
He concluded:
"I beg to say that I have made every effort to run down
Scottie Deane, the murderer. I have not given up hope
of finding him, but I believe that he has gone from
my territory and is probably now somewhere within the
limits of the Fort Churchill patrol. We have hunted
the country for three hundred miles south along the
shore of Hudson‘s Bay to Eskimo Point, and as far north
as Wagner Inlet. Within three months we have made three
patrols west of the Bay, unraveling sixteen hundred
miles without finding our man or word of him. I
respectfully advise a close watch of the patrols south
of the

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