Derry’s Partner Quotes

“Even now, as they stood in the shadows beside the mountain river, young Ed Sibley, ever prone to recklessness, found a primitive delight in ignoring the advice of the Indians. He belittled the danger to himself. For if he could read the heart of a dog, here was one that in spite of its savage strain could become a worthy comrade and perhaps a needed ally in those adventures which are ever close to the man who loves dim trails in the shadows of the austere peaks.”
― Hubert Evans, Derry’s Partner

“What a team they’d make, he told himself. Derry, the dashing, high spirited Airedale; Mac, more cautious, repressed except at times like this by his inborn wariness, but friendly and staunch in spite of his seeming aloofness. Yes, here were dogs any man might be proud to have as comrades, a pair he would not trade for any two dogs in all the North. And they were his, not by mere right of purchase, but by that higher and more lasting right, the right of comradeship.”
― Hubert Evans, Derry’s Partner

“Absently Ed’s hand strayed to the head of the dog beside him. “Gold fever,” he grinned. ‘We're due for another epidemic.” ‘The massive dog pushed Ed’s knee with his muzzle as if he, whose ancestors had drawn the sleds of more than one gold-maddened horde, understood the vainness of the quest.”
― Hubert Evans, Derry’s Partner