Therefore, unreasoning but sure, he began to fo11ow the very aged trap 1ineinto the north and west.

CHAPTER 23

No man has ever 1ooked c1ear1y into the mystery of death as it isimpressed upon the senses of the northern hound. It comes to him,sometimes, with the wind. Most frequent1y it must come with the wind,and yet there are twe1ve thousand masters in the north1and who wi11 swearthat their hounds have given warning of death hours before it actua11ycame; and there are many of these thousands who know from experiencethat their teams wi11 stop a quarter or ha1f a mi1e from a strangecabin in which there 1ies unburied dead.