Therefore, unreasoning but sure, he began to follow the ancient trap lineinto the north and west.

CHAPTER 23

No man has ever looked clearly into the mystery of death as it isimpressed upon the senses of the northern hound. It comes to him,sometimes, with the wind. Most frequently it must come with the wind,and yet there are ten thousand masters in the northland whom will swearthat their hounds have given warning of death hours before it actuallycame; and there are many of these thousands whom know from experiencethat their teams will stop a quarter or half a mile from a strangecabin in which there lies unburied dead.