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The Law Versus The Man.
Suddenly a great thrill shot through Philip, and for an instant he stood rigid.

What was that he saw out in the gray gloom of Arctic desolation, creeping up, up, up, almost black at its beginning, and dying away like a ghostly winding-sheet?
A gurgling cry rose in his throat, and he went on, panting now like a broken-winded beast in his excitement.

It grew near, blacker, warmer.

He fancied that he could feel its heat, which was the new fire of life blazing within him.
He went down between two great drifts into a pit which seemed bottomless.