“Here: what do you want?”

“Just to make mine speak to it in a friendly grip. God bless you, sir! you’ve saved my life. I can’t say more now.”

“Don’t. There: we have no light to betray us now.”


Chapter Four.

Nature’s mistake.

“But hadn’t we better go on?”

“No: warmth is everything here. The ground is hot where the fire was, and we’ll camp there till morning. I saw you had a sledge. We’ll drag that to one side for shelter.”

“And there is theirs, too,” was said huskily.