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Rh A moment later a loud splash sounded from far below. And upon the ridge the three gazed in silence into each other's faces.

When the Indians at Tilton Lake Post heard the story of the accident and saw that the woman who returned with Connie Morgan and Ick Far was a real woman of flesh and blood, they returned once more to their hunting-ground on Red Tail Lake. And while the men of the Yukon wonder, Connie Morgan and Ick Far know, that the trail of the "Demon's Heart" is ended. For the great nugget lies to this day griplocked in the hand of a dead man on the floor of a black water lake in the heart of the land of gold.