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They found places where he had hunted for fuel, and firing signals

regularly they reached the spot where he had caht before,

and saw the ashes of his fire He was headed south; not because there

was more hope that way--there was less--but as if he ,

and that were easiest A quarter of a ht of aThe nextrace across the

slope, and Blood, weakly hurrahing, fainted in Glover's arms

His story was short He re on

the hill at the point where the wreck had occurred The ice that

always spread across the track and over the edge of the gulch had been

chopped out by the shovellers the afternoon before, but water trickling

fro the night

In juway at the moment of the wreck Blood's heels

had landed on smooth ice and he had tu consciousness at the botto ripped a little, as he put it The loss of one side of his

on his face a peculiarly

forlorn expression, he did not take account of--declaring on the whole,