
In the frozen reaches of Alaska, a lone trapper hauls a heavy sled loaded with a season’s worth of furs, while his ailing partner shivers behind a woolen scarf. A relentless snowstorm turns the landscape into a white, howling abyss, and the dogs strain against the deep drifts as the two men battle the bitter cold, isolation, and the mounting pressure of an overdue trip to the nearest settlement.
Against this brutal backdrop, desperation twists into dark curiosity. The trapper’s mind roams from thoughts of wealth and a future on a fur ranch to a chilling notion that the only way to keep the profits for himself is to let his companion die. As the storm tightens its grip, the line between survival and murder begins to blur, setting the stage for a tense struggle of conscience amid unforgiving wilderness.
Language
en
Duration
~27 minutes (26K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2010-06-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1921–1990
A busy, dependable voice from the pulp-era boom, he helped fill the pages of mid-century science fiction magazines with fast-moving adventures, strange worlds, and eerie ideas. His stories first reached readers in the early 1940s and still turn up in reprints and public-domain collections today.
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