Name: The Gate in the Sky
Author: Harold Lamb

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ Now that he was leaving the Syansk behind his mood was pleasant. Not that he had been alarmed by the Mongol's remark that Maak was perhaps making magic, sitting on one of the peaks of his hills, talking to his tengeri, spirits. But Petrovan had feared that even in the snowstorm the reindeer-keeper might find his herd and cut it out.
"He is like the reindeer after all," Petrovan thought. "He is a khada-ulan-obokhod, an old man of the mountain. Where he is driven, he will go." ”

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ He wanted to cross the water before making camp.
"He is afraid that that dog of a Maak will make magic back yonder on the mountains," leered Orani.
The half-breed swore at the Mongol, and they made camp where they were. Orani rather wished Maak had shown up again. He wanted a shot at the Buriat—Petrovan had made a mess of the shooting.
While Petrovan snored through the night the half-breed sat with his back to a broad tree, watching, by the intermittent flickering in the sky, lest a thin, black figure try to approach the herd over the snow. ”

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ No one came. The herd edged about restlessly, seeking moss under the snow. Their flanks were beginning to fall lean. They had been driven hard. All their instincts led them to follow blindly after the one who happened to be the leader.
"Well, they will carry their skins a good way for us yet," remarked Petrovan the next morning as the men were preparing to mount. "We can get a good price for the skins."
"We might have had the white buck," grumbled Orani, "if you had attended to the old man of the mountain that night in his yurt." ”

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ The half-breed: almost across the Irkut, had let the reindeer get out of hand. The leaders of the herd had no sooner gained footing on the farther bank than they about-faced, throwing the great mass of animals into confusion.
Orani bellowed and waved his arms to no avail. The herd churned the water, tossing their horns. Then they started back toward the Mongol and Petrovan. At the same instant Petrovan stopped cursing and Orani ceased his unavailing shouts. A white buck paced down the farther bank to the river-edge, and on the white buck was Maak. ”

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ He pointed at the white buck that lingered near his tent.
When the Siberian retired to the big tent with a rug on the earth and a cot and lantern, Maak examined it from the opening with great appreciation. He was the last to retire to shelter from the cold.
The evening had been an eventful one. Maak would have enough to think about all Winter. He had been entertained by a trader.
It was long after Maak had disappeared that Orani came out of his tent and moved silently off into the dark. ”

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Harold Lamb, The Gate in the Sky (1922)

“ The Gate in the Sky by
HAROLD LAMB
Author of "The Village of the Ghost," "The House of the Strongest," etc.
THE long night of winter had begun. snow-flurries swept the heights of the Syansk Range that separates Mongolia from Siberia proper. In that year early in the eighteenth century under the heights a great quiet had fallen.
Ice formed along the banks of the streams. Another week and the passes into the northern plain, with its scattered settlements, would be closed. The few traders who still lingered in the Syansk were hurrying down to the towns, several hundred miles away. ”

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