“No.”
“When you were gone all in a moment I thought you’d slipped and gone sliding down like them chaps do the tobogganing, sir.”
“You did call to me, then?”
“Call, sir? I expect that made me so hoarse this morning.”
“I did not hear you till I whistled and you answered, not long ago.”
“Why, I whistled too, sir, lots o’ times, and nigh went mad with thinking about you.”
“Thank you, Gedge,” said Bracy quietly, and he held out his hand and gripped his companion’s warmly. “I give you a great deal of trouble.”
“Trouble, sir? Hark at you! That ain’t trouble. But after you got out of the snow?”
“After I got out of the snow?”
“Yus, sir; you was there all night.”