£ and unnatural, settling over the gloomy land 

 , _- like a winding-sheet. 



r^j/d As the unknown howl trembled faintly 

 ^-w-0^5 in the air Noel, who had slept undisturbed 

 through all the clamor of the dogs, stirred 

 uneasily by the foremast. As it deepened 

 and swelled into a roar that filled all the 

 night he threw off the caribou skin and came 

 aft to where I was watching alone. " Das 

 Wayeeses. I know dat hwulf; he follow 

 me one time, oh, long, long while 

 ago," he whispered. Aiid taking 

 my marine glasses he stood 

 beside me watching intently. 

 There was another long 

 period of waiting; our eyes 

 grew weary, filled as they were with shadows 

 and uncertainties in the moonlight, and we 

 turned our ears to the hills, waiting with 

 strained, silent expectancy for the challenge. 

 Suddenly Noel pointed upward and my eye 

 caught something moving swiftly on the crest 

 of the mountain. A shadow with the slink- 

 ing trot of a wolf glided along the ridge 

 between us and the moon. Just in front of 







