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 her eyes shining in the light of the moon. Gently her hand touched the
old captain's arm. "Listen," she whispered. "Another berg breaking away
from Old Thunder. We are very near the shore, and there are glaciers all
the way up." "And that other sound, like low wind--on a night so still
and calm! What is it?" "You always hear that when very close to the big
mountains, Miss Standish. It is made by the water of a thousand streams
and rivulets rushing down to the sea. Wherever there is melting snow in
the mountains, you hear that song." "And this man, Alan Holt," she
reminded him. "He is a part of these things?" "Possibly more than any
other man, Miss Standish. He was born in Alaska before Nome or Fairbanks
or Dawson City were thought of. It was in Eighty-four, I think. Let me
see, that would make him--" "Thirty-eight," she said, so quickly that
for a moment he was astonished. Then he chuckled. "You are very good at
figures." He felt an almost imperceptible tightening of her fingers on
his arm. "This evening, just after dinner, old Donald found me sitting
alone. He said he was lonely and wanted to talk with someone--like me.
He almost frightened me, with his great, gray beard and shaggy hair. I
thought of ghosts as we talked there in the dusk." "Old Donald belongs
to the days when the Chilkoot and the White Horse ate up men's lives,
and a trail of living dead led from the Summit to Klondik