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The Gold Trail

CHAPTER V
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After all, the great thing is to keep the warmth in us.

Where are you going ?" "I'll find a burrow somewhere within call," said Weston quietly.
He was busy for some little time scraping stones out from the hollow beneath the ledge, and then he built a rough wall of the larger ones on two sides of it.

After that they got Miss Kinnaird there with some difficulty, and when she and the others had crept into the shelter and wrapped the blankets round them, he turned away and stretched himself out beneath the largest stone he could find.

For an hour he lay there smoking, and then put his pipe away.

He had not much tobacco, and it occurred to him that he might want the little that remained on the morrow.
In the meanwhile it had grown bitterly cold, and one never feels the cold so much as when a day's arduous exertion has exhausted the natural heat of the body.


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