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He shivered as the cold nipped at his blood, and lighted a fresh cigar, half-turning to shield himself from a wind that was growing out of the east. As the match flared in the cup of his hands for an instant there came from the black gloom of the balsam and spruce at his feet a wailing, hungerful cry that brought a startled breath from his lips.
On the contrary, much to my astonishment, he had bequeathed to me quite half his fortune all his share, indeed, in the Gondifera mine while all his realised property, which was invested in good English and American securities, out of the reach of the grasping hand of the hungerful Venezuelan patriots all this he left to his daughter Elsie.
"I swear that Jan Thoreau will never do wrong to the little Melisse!" With a face white and set in its determination, he turned slowly away from the tree. Far away, from the lonely depths of the swamp, there came the wailing howl of a wolf a cry of hungerful savageness that died away in echoes of infinite sadness.
It was past midnight when he spread out the furs and undressed for bed. He opened the stove door and from the bunk watched the faint flickerings of the dying firelight on the log walls. As slumber closed his eyes he was conscious of a sound the faint, hungerful, wailing cry to which he had listened that first night near Prince Albert.
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