that, as they wrestled for the supremacy 

 of the herd of does, which doubtless 

 was not far away. We could not see 

 clearly : all was as in a dream. There 

 was not a sound, only the blurred 

 outlines through the blank mist of two 

 mighty creatures struggling for victory. 

 One brief glimpse of this mountain 

 drama ; then they sank out of sight, and 

 the numbing grayness and darkness once 

 more closed around us. 



On the way back to camp, Blondey 

 shied at a heap of decaying bones that 

 were still attached to a magnificent pair 

 of antlers. They were at the foot of a 

 cliff, over which the animal had prob- 

 ably fallen. The gruesome sight was 

 suggestive of the end of one of those 

 shadowy creatur.es, fighting back there 

 high up on the mountain in the mist 

 and the darkness. 



