noon
All day he swung on in a swirl of snow , tireless . The landscape swam about him , the white glare searched out the inmost painful recesses of his brain . He knew enough to keep his eyes shut most of the time , trusting to Mack . At noon he divided accurately the entire food supply with the animal . At night he fasted . The two , man and dog , slept huddled close together for the sake of the warmth . At midnight the girl crept in broken and exhausted .