Chapter X
The Phantom Wolf
THE second spring after Silversheene's mysterious disappearance Richard Henderson had a very bad attack of the wanderlust. He had often been attacked by this strange malady before but never in such violent form. It was this adventurous spirit and a wish to see all parts of the earth that his mother had complained of to Mr. Henderson on that autumn twilight several years before, when Dick had set off down the mountain side to go for the needed part of their automobile.
Mr. Henderson had always supposed that when Dick was older this restlessness would leave him and that he would settle down, but seeing how restless and unhappy he was now, he said, "All right, Dick, my boy. If you must see Alaska, or some other god-
