Midnight
He unhitched Wolf Fang from her sled , put him at the head of Harrington 's team , and mushed the string of animals into the Yukon trail . `` Poor Louis Savoy ! '' men said ; but Joy Molineau flashed her black eyes defiantly and drove back to her father 's cabin . * * * * * Midnight drew near on Olaf Nelson 's claim . A few hundred fur-clad men had preferred sixty below and the jumping , to the inducements of warm cabins and comfortable bunks . Several score of them had their notices prepared for posting and their dogs at hand . A bunch of Captain Constantine 's mounted police had been ordered on duty that fair play might rule .