"Sounds more like a half-breed to me!" Tommy answered.
"He's stopped coming on, anyway." Sandy exclaimed in a moment.
"Perhaps he's tumbled down in the snow!" Tommy argued.
"In that case, we'd better be getting out where he is," said Sandy.
The boys both left the fire and darted out into the darkness, listening for the call but hearing only the roaring of the wind.
CHAPTER VI
THE CAVE OP THE TWO BEARS
"Bears?" exclaimed George, as the lads listened in front of the cave, "do you think there are polar bears up here? I think it's cold enough for the big white variety."
"Put your head inside the cave," Thede suggested, "and you won't be wondering whether there are any bears here."
George did as requested, and soon the warm animal odor noticeable in the various zoos of the country attacked his nostrils.