"Will you do as I bid you?"
"Yes"
"Take care of yourself somewhat, then."
"I can best do that by taking care of you."
"You can do nothing pleasing to me that will bring harm to yourself," she said. "We must get out of the wind, and if nothing better offers, must bury ourselves in the snow be-side the horses. I remember reading of such things. The sleigh robes and the warmth of their bodies would keep us from freezing; I'm not so very cold."
Addie and Bel were crying bitterly, while De Forrest was groaning and cursing from where he stood, behind the sleigh.
"Come," he shouted, "what's to be done?"
"I will go straight up the bank. I may find a ledge, or some rocks, under which we may cower," said Hemstead.
"Don't go far," said Lottie, eagerly. "I should, indeed, lose hope, if you became separated from us."
He soon returned with the joyful news that a little way up the bank was a high ledge, where they would be completely sheltered from the wind.