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The summers and winters of fifty golden years have brought to the plains their balmy breezes and blazing heat, their soft, life-giving showers, and their fierce, blizzard anger. And down through these fifty years Eloise St. Vrain and I have walked the love trails of the plains together.
"First I must know that Miss Ferris is safe." "Give me your word of honor that when you know that she is you will consent." "I don't know what you have to do with honor," said Wilmot, "but I give my word." "Then," said Blizzard, sliding to the floor, "I go to set Miss Ferris free."
In the morning the men gathered to make a search, but at that moment in walked "old Harry"! He told me later that he was coming home in the afternoon when the blizzard began. It was dirty, thick of snow, and cold. Suddenly he heard bells ringing, and knew that it was fairies bidding him follow them because he had followed them before. So off he went, pushing his way through the driving snow.
At first Barbara could not bear to tell her father, but at last her excitement and distress became so great that she had to tell him. In a few hours she had changed from a radiant person to one white, sick, and shadowed. "I've seen that man," she said. "I was writing notes in the summer-house. He " "What man Blizzard? Well?" "I've promised to marry him.
As he stood there watching and wiping the snow from his eyes, he reminded himself not only of his own experience but of every story of disaster in a blizzard he had ever listened to. And so he saw no hope for the poor wretch he had seen struggling to make the shelter. But he could not bring himself to abandon his post. How could he with a fellow creature out there in peril?
"But will they give me a chance? Lichtenstein could send me to the chair if he wanted to." "He won't do that. He will understand." "I should like Miss Barbara to feel kindly toward me." "She will. I hope that your mind has changed about her, too?" "That," said Blizzard, "is between me and my conscience. Whatever I feel toward her will never trouble her again."
The second day out they encountered a terrible snow-storm and blizzard in a place they christened "Freeze Out Canon," by which name it is still known. As Penrose had only a pack-train and no heavy wagons, and the ground was covered with snow, it was a very difficult matter to follow his trail.
And as ill-luck would have it, there was a sharp frost all the winter, the snow drifted in high heaps, and the winter dragged on. At Annunciation there was a regular blizzard, and there was a fall of snow at Easter. But in spite of it all the winter did end. At the beginning of April there came warm days and frosty nights.
Auld Lang Syne, however, did not save the blankets and provisions, and the bedizened crew stripped the dugout almost bare of supplies; but Will was thankful enough to see the back of the last of them. Two days later a blizzard set in. Will took an inventory, and found that, economy considered, he had food for a week; but as the storm would surely delay Dave, he put himself on half rations.
'Joe! he cried faintly, but with Joe, his only son, he had quarrelled. Joe had vanished on the Klondyke in a blizzard. This must be his ghost. 'Come, Dad! called the beloved figure in front of him beseechingly. 'My boy, my boy! cried his father, pressing his son to his bosom. 'Thank God for ye, my boy, my boy!
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