Chapter 12 THE SETTING-IN OF WINTER

About mid-afternoon of the day of Kingswell's advent into the settlement on Gray Goose River-Fort Beatrix it was called-the sky clouded, the voice of the river thinned and saddened, and snow began to fall. By Trigget's advice-and Trigget seemed to be the working head of the plantation-the pelts and gear of the Pelican were removed to the storehouse