For Garratt Skinner suddenly stripped off his coat, passed it round Hine's shoulders and then, baring his own breast, clasped Hine to it that he might impart to him some warmth from his own body.
Thus they were found by the rescue party; and the story of Garratt Skinner's great self-sacrifice was long remembered in Courmayeur.
Garratt Skinner watched the men mounting and wondered who they were.

He recognized his own guide, Pierre Delouvain, but who were the others, how did they come there on a morning so forbidding?
Who was the tall man who walked last but one?
And as the party drew nearer, he saw and understood.
But he did not change from his attitude.

He waited until they were close.
Then he and Hilary Chayne exchanged a look.
"You ?" said Garratt Skinner.
"Yes--" Chayne paused.

"Yes, Mr.Strood," he said.
And in those words all was said.

Garratt Skinner knew that his plan was not merely foiled, but also understood.