In the late afternoon he saw an empty moose-hide sack like his.He recognized it and knew it was Bill's.A hundred yards farther were the bones of a human skeleton.The man did not need to guess.Bill had almost made it!
Finally the man lay quiet in sleep.Two or three times during the night the sick wolf had come close to the man,bared its teeth,and sniffed in hunger,but the man flung his arms out and scared the wolf away.