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Being what he was, he merely received her with frozen silence and led her out to the waiting taxi-cab. It was only when the cab had started on its journey that he found relief in speech. "Well," he said, mastering with difficulty an inclination to raise his voice to a shout, "perhaps you will kindly explain?" Jill had sunk back against the cushions of the cab.

"Well, I hope we'll see something of you now you're here." "I guess so," said John, a little frozen. "Well, ta-ta," concluded Beatson, and he shook hands again and went. This was a cruel first experience. It was idle to blink facts: here was John home again, and Beatson Old Beatson did not care a rush.

These winters of Asiatic Russia may be said to be precocious, considering that during them the thermometer falls until the mercury is frozen nearly 42 degrees below zero, and that 20 degrees below zero is considered an unsupportable temperature. The weather favored our travelers. It was neither stormy nor rainy.

He thought of the coat they had come to obtain, but that had probably gone with the hat and the hay and all other things in the route of the hurricane. He stooped close over her quivering form and let the frozen pellets fall on his unprotected head. The deluge was mercifully short, but at the end Luther Hansen was almost beaten into insensibility.

They wondered where they came from and it did not take them long to learn that their neighbors were a company of trappers belonging to the Hudson Bay Company that enormous corporation, founded two centuries before, whose agents and employees tramp over British America, far to the northward of the frozen circle, and until a recent date hunted through Oregon.

The storm continued to rage, and the snow still fell heavily. Piece after piece of the boat had been cut away its place being supplied with a wall and roof of snow, which the seamen gradually built up. They were beginning to feel the pangs of hunger, and they could scarcely get sufficient warmth from the small fire they were able to maintain to keep themselves from being frozen.

Then the men in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then. In that cold country I saw some Indians. They were dressed in skins. I never saw such dirty-looking men and women before in all my life, and I have never seen any such since. They had never seen a ship before, I should think.

The old man talked, too, as though it were very cold, pausing and not opening his mouth properly; and he mispronounced the labial consonants, stuttering over them as though his lips were frozen. As he talked to Yegorushka he did not once smile, and he seemed stern.

Was it, he wondered with a flash of sympathy, that Israel was too great for Action; too sophisticated a people for so primitive and savage a function; too set in the moulds of an ancient scholastic civilization, so that, even when Action was attempted, it was turned and frozen into Philosophy?

"Seems to me," thought Dotty, "that baby might grow faster and have more sense. I never got into a watering-trough in my life! Why, how dark it is! Hark!" said she, aloud; "what is that rattling against the windows?" For she heard "the driving hail Upon the window beat with icy flail." "That is hail," replied Polly "frozen drops of rain."