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 His muscles were becoming used to their terrible strain, and his wind was better. His spirits also rose high as he saw a possibility of being in at the finish.

Twilight found them at Dead Man's Hill. Yukon Harry and Buck Wellington were first in.

Hans Johnson was third, with Scotty Ellis fourth and old Silversheene hugging the back end of his sled. The half-breed, Joe, was an hour behind.

Again men and dogs rested for an hour or two. The dogs threw themselves down with deep sighs and some of them groaned as well, while their masters fell to the floor like logs, some of them being even too tired to eat.

Scotty Ellis was one of these, but Richard Henderson noted that he had a lunch slipped into a bag. So Dick followed suit and ordered a lunch to eat on the trail.

But Scotty Ellis only slept an hour and then got slyly up and stole out of the cabin to harness his team. By good fortune Dick