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our possession of the eyrie, he had insisted on 

 Frank and Yassili joining our party. When, 

 however, we found no trace of any rivals, he 

 listened to Frank's suggestion, and the end of 

 it was that my friend and his hunter went 

 back to cam23. 



How it was that m these mountaineering 

 exploits we never suiFered from cold and rheu- 

 matism, or any of the other ills that assail us 

 at home, I could never quite comprehend. 

 All that night, for example, I passed shivering 

 on my rocky ledge, wet to my waist and 

 chilled by the wind that whistled over the 

 glacier. But I never felt any evil results from 

 the exposure next day. 



As soon as the moon rose, we kept a very 

 careful outlook, but of course the wmd shifted, 

 and when next mornmg we began with stiff 

 limbs the climb to the top of the glacier, 

 which we had determmed on the night before, 

 we found that the ' djikve ' had come to 



