CHAPTER XIII

Close To Death Even as the waters closed over him, it came to Don in a flash what had happened to him. He had stepped into one of the holes that studded the ice fields at intervals, a hole similar to the one in which the bears had been fishing and into which the seal had disappeared. A horrible chill shot through him as the icy waters enfolded him. Down, down he went, until it seemed as though he were going to the bottom. Then he began to ascend. But instead of coming up where he had gone down, his head came up wit…