Luck favored them, and they encountered an Indian who guided them to a place called Moose Factory.  Here they wrote the letters home which reached their wives and the daily press before they themselves returned to civilization.  A great hue and cry was raised by the newspapers about their plight.  Newspaper correspondents vied with each other for the honor of being the first to meet them and get their story.

They arrived at a collection of houses named Mattice.  A. and C. proceeded ahead and found instructions for them not to talk.  C. went back to B., who was in a shack with the correspondents full of the story of the letters.  B. became enraged and struck C. who retained his self-control.

Differences were patched up, and the three returned together to New York.  There the medical examination of the three showed that the four days in the wilderness had left its deepest effects upon the physique and mind of B. In a few days he developed an attack of tonsillitis, with fever, and a mental disturbance described by the medical officer as exhaustion psychosis.  He believed this condition to be the result of severe exhaustion, prolonged anxiety, worry, and extreme exposure.  Extreme restlessness and irritability, confusion of thought and an undefined perplexity, all the prominent symptoms of exhaustion psychosis, making him hyperactive and inclined to acts of violence, were in evidence.

The physique, character and reactions of Lieut.  B. are what interest us in the case.  The pictures of him published, and the structure of his skull, face and teeth, his hair and other physical traits point to his being an adrenal-centered type, of the unstable variety, so far as his internal secretion make-up is concerned.  As we shall see in the next chapter on the different kinds of endocrine personalities, the unstable adrenocentric (convenient name for the class) is characterized by rapid exhaustibility because under conditions of stress and strain, the reserve of the gland is consumed.  The adrenal glands, we noted in a preceding chapter, are concerned with the maintenance of muscle and nerve tone in emergencies.  They are the glands which, during crises especially, control the production and supply of energy to the various organs and tissues called upon to function to the utmost in emergencies.  When the adrenals fail, as they do readily in these labile adrenocentrics, it is as if the adrenals were cut out of the body.  And it has been repeatedly shown that extirpation of the adrenals is immediately followed by degeneration and breakdown of the brain cells.