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for the rest of your life. ” Katie doesn’t seem surprised. Then, as if frightened by venturing so far north, aftertwo meager hours it disappeared and twenty-two hours of freezing darkness returned. The wolf Charlie had shown me in the mirror was the one Katie saw now.

I have it on loan. What’s one more night?” Under his breath, he adds, “Besides, the deadline isn’t what matters. nd ice began to rush across fromshore to shore as if it operated under directions of its own, and two days laterthe Yukon was frozen. Still awaiting the arrival of the jailer,he paced back and forth, as if his energy were so great that it could not be controlled,