"Are you joking, Captain?"
"I'm serious, Haskell. Is it clear?"
"It's still snowing, Captain, just as it was less than an hour ago when you left."
Lamoureux grunted. "You may be interested to know that it hasn't snowed here at all."
He cut off Haskell's astonished voice, and turned to the others, who now seemed a little uneasy. The unexpected changes in the weather were a little too much for them.
"Now that it's cleared up, we should be able to find that mountain. We'll spread out just a little, but not too far. For all we know, it may start to snow again. Carvalho, you take your group off to the left—"
Sprott whispered, "Captain!"
"Yes?"
"Isn't that a Mercurian?"