Show STUDENT LIFE 79 roads may get worse” he said time and at the finish” and they “and this wind is going to be hell were gloriously living up to their reputation They took the drifts lip on the Divide” like snow ploughs and on the The sunshine reflected from the ridges where the snow was not crisp snow with a fierce brightdeep they went like deer with no ness that made Walden cover his other urging than their own gladthe reached When they eyes ness to be allowed to go At the out and increased wind the ridge summit he scanned the valley in across the bleak flat tbe sage hopes of a broken road and off in brush was hidden by a thin siftthe distance he could see three ing veil of fine snow Every atom teams slowly creeping along in of moisture was gone from the the direction he wished to go air and their breaths froze before This meant speed and he shouted they left their faces Great icithe intelligence to the rugs cles formed at the horses’ nostrils On the way down with the Far off across the country from wind at their backs and less sethe pinnacle of a mountain which vere the old man ventured his rose abruptly from the level a head from the furs and in surlong streamer of snow was flying prise said “Great heavens man out into the crisp blue Jack have you given me all the rugs?” used as he was to the climate was Tack simply smiled and pointing cut to the bone by tbe cold and to the town in the distance Walden began early to elaborate asked for the time It was two on the truth of Jack’s prediction o’clock Ten miles yet but a and became gradually more elabbroken trail They would make it orate until he got too cold for On the broken road it became speech Then Jack regardless of warmer and the old man inquired himself piled the rugs about the into affairs at the ranch and tried old man and bent his entire ento find out about his foreman’s easiest the to way past He learned little except picking ergies shouted He drifts the that Jack had left a good position through it we’ll make an encouraging “O to come out there and that he had come from the old man’s own alright” to the impatient from the pile of rugs but city He would not give his reahe knew that unless they found son for leaving but when the old a road broken down in the valley man suggested a girl as the cause or the train was late the outcome he did not deny it and a look was going to be close and doubthalf hard half intense longing ful There was satisfaction came into his eyes Then in one his in his team of those unaccountable bursts of During though short stay in the west “pinto fellowship their mittened hands had come to mean “In all the met across the furs mur-murin- gs ' |