It develops that the mate and [35] Flander found Norman up on the di- vide between the two gulches. They had gone almost as far as they dared, yel- ing as they went, when they heard a faint call and made out a dark rising from object the snow. They hurried to it and found it to be Norman, who had seen or heard them and shout- ed as loudly as he could. He recog- nized them and tried to help him- sel as they dragged him along with each of his arms over a shoulder of each. A mile of this was all that the mate went on and found men could stand. Then they saw Dr. Hunt in the big gulch, and the two left Flander took turns with the mate in backing Norman, now unconscious, to the cliff at the mouth of the gulch. Then they lowered him by a rope