Dan searched his face sharply. Smith nodded, "I'm making my bet on the people—friend!"
It was a new Dan who lifted his bronzed face to a white world. His voice was low and very gentle. "To bring a road here," he swung his whip-handle from Donovan's light around to Carson's square, sweeping in all that lay behind, "out here to them—" The pioneer faced the wide desert that reached into a misty space ablaze with stars, "would be like—playing God!"
The whip thudded softly into the socket and Dan rolled up on the driver's seat. Two men climbed in behind him. The long lash swung out over the leaders as Dan headed the old mail-sled across the drifted right-of-way of the Great Missouri and Eastern.
FOOTNOTES:
[21] Copyright, 1919, by The Pictorial Review Company.
Copyright, 1921, by Frances Gilchrist Wood.
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