e Whisperer's message. "Did he listen in last night whe

ay you couldn't help that. You were

boys were silent. The

Munson, the explorer. It was not broken in upon as his others have been. There

'll go out and after them the first thing after dawn. Is

ng's fine

urn in. Luck doesn't go with any one person forever. Why,

By that time, traveling on a hard-packed trail as he is, he'll have a big lead on us. There are probably forks and crosses in t

rlie sighed, "but we'll g

nly, "who is this whisperi

aid Curlie, scr

seen

n't k

be traveling with

't s

queer, I

as well admit that I am as much interested in coming u

don't eat and turn in," said Joe

. The first two days they struggled forward through soft snow, over a trackless wilderness.

he had followed only the trackless trail of the air. Now he had footprints of a man and of many dogs to go by. The mark of the camp, though three d

nths from now. There might be four feet of snowfall, but on top of it all there would be the depression made in the first two feet of snow

the Yukon River trai

we'll find a way to track him-the way he hitches his dogs, track of h

amp as did Jennings. The square made by the tent floor showed that he had spread down a canvas floor and the heaps of s

nine dogs to the team. Fine big fellows too. Sho

were everywhere present. What he sought was the mark of a smaller foot, a much smaller foot, the foot of the Whisperer. But though he examined every square

team and led the other," he

began to doubt the exi

Whisperer are one? Does he change his voice and pretend

ad been those two times when he had been listening in at the Secret Tower Room, back there in the city (told

should this man keep me informed of his own doings? He ought to

l must exist. She's somewhere up there on the trail ahead of us

vented by the mind of this clever outlaw. The more he thought of it the more sure h

uncoed by the man you are pursuing!" he e

o the night, traveled until dogs and men were ready to drop. Only then did they tur