But the will to action, stimulated back to life, remained.

However comfortable it was between the fires they must not stay there to perish.
"Why don't we go on ?" he said to Willet.
"I'm glad to hear you ask that question," replied the hunter.
"Why, Dave ?" "Because it shows that you haven't given up.

If you've got the courage to leave such a warm and dry place you've got the courage also to make another fight for life.

And you were the first to speak, too, Robert." "We must go on," said Tayoga.

"But it is best to throw slush over the fire and hide our traces." The task finished they took up their vague journey, going they knew not where, but knowing that they must go somewhere, their uncertain way still leading along the crests of narrow ridges, across shallow dips and through drooping forests, where the wind moaned miserably.