It were well not to forget Mrs. McFee.  She took a cabin passage on the first steamer going out.  She also took with her a theory which she had achieved in the silent watches of the long dark nights; and it is her conviction that the Northland is unregenerate because it is so cold there.  Fear of hell-fire cannot be bred in an ice-box.  This may appear dogmatic, but it is Mrs. McFee’s theory.