message, 4 Yon is the north/ With 

 course corrected, on he went, and, 

 whenever in doubt, dug out this 

 compass-flower, till the country 

 dipped and Pine Creek lay below. 

 There was good camping here, 

 the very spot indeed where, fifteen 

 years before, Butler had camped on 

 his Loneland Journey ; but now the 

 blizzard had ceased, so Yan spent 

 the day hunting without seeing a 

 track, and he spent the night as be- 

 fore, wishing that nature had been 

 kinder to him in the matter of fur. 

 During that first lone night his face 

 and toes had been frozen and now 

 bore burning sores. But still he 

 kept on the chase, for something 

 within had told him that the Grail 



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