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They stood at the door of the entrance-hall, talking with Mr Strang, the one with his snow-shoes slung over his shoulder on the butt of his gun, the other using the same implements as a rest for his hands, while Spooner, in a state of great excitement, was hastily undoing the lashings of the sled, to get at the precious box which contained "the packet."
Even Professor Henderson joined in, and the Esquimaux added his voice in a queer sort of native cheer that made all of the others smile. "Now if we could only fly to her we'd be all right," exclaimed Mark. The guide was busy overhauling the sled.
We'll tie him on a moose sled, an' you start in an hour, whilst the men are still asleep. I'll break a window out of the wangan, an' on this crust there'll be no foot-tracks. It'll be thought he broke out and ran away an' that'll be his own lookout." His voice became low and husky.
The strong sleds with high-back handle bar and railed sides were firmly packed with freight, which was securely lashed down. The dogs were driven in pairs, eleven to a sled, the eleventh being in each case a fine leader and called such, besides having his own Eskimo name, as did also the four men who were warmly dressed in furs from head to foot.
As his arms were tied behind his back, when they put an old fur coat on him they pulled the sleeves of it on his legs and buttoned the coat behind. In spite of the bandage over his eyes, he easily recognized these operations, and then felt himself lifted upon the familiar moose sled. Several bags full of something were thrown on.
He was quite ready to take the sled rope and give Louise a fine ride up the lake toward the fort, and back to the fire, and to guide Faith in her clumsy efforts to skate. Faith and Louise were warming their fingers at the fire when they heard loud voices and a commotion on the ice. "What is it?
The trail ended here, for it was not needed where a sled could go anywhere over the clearing. "Come, dear boy. Come, dear old horse," she urged. "Five minutes more will take us there." The watch's cruel face told the hour to be twelve minutes past twelve, but Sydney did not feel so keen a pang as when she looked last, although it was later than the fatal hour.
There was never a hint here that the men were pitted against one another in the fiercest rivalry of the North; for they were ever ready to help their opponents to patch a broken harness, mend a sled, or care for the dogs just as, on the way, they give fair warning of overflows or other obstacles. It is no race for those of weak bodies, mean minds or small souls.
The rain beat and the wind roared and beautiful palms lashed the air with their fronds It was grand to get on shore once again At the end of the wharf we were hustled into a sled on steel runners, like a hearse with curtains around it and drawn by bullocks The streets were all of mosaic, thousands of little stones being packed together like corn on a cob.
I first thought of taking the horses and large sleigh and of keeping on the railroad track, but I remembered that there were a good many culverts and little bridges which I could not cross that way, and I knew to leave the track would mean to be lost instantly. So I saw that the best I could do was to take Kaiser and the small sled.
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