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My body was captive in our snowbound little cabin but my mind ranged the golden palaces of Persia so much I know. Where the wonder-working romances came from I cannot now tell but I think they were Christmas presents, for Christmas came this year with unusual splendor.
Lindsay's condition, but up to the time of our leaving home, the wires were not working through to San Francisco; and the trains on the Union Pacific are completely snowbound. The agent told me this morning that it was uncertain when the cars would run through, as the track is blocked up.
Outside, not a thing stirred in that snowbound world. Not a sound of civilization reached them. They were a man and woman in the primal, in civilization and yet a million miles from it. "The candle's going out," she announced. "Is there another?" "There'll be light enough for what I got to do," he growled. Despite her effort to appear indifferent, her great fear showed plainly in her eyes.
She would meet Chris far down town, among the big, cold, snowbound office-buildings, and they would loiter for two hours at some inconspicuous table in a restaurant, and come wandering out into the cold streets still talking, absorbed and content.
And our own people, starved and snowbound, went out likewise, Tom and Polly Ann and their little family and myself to the farm at the river-side. And while the water flowed between the stumps over the black land, we planted and ploughed and prayed, always alert, watching north and south, against the coming of the Indians. But Tom was no husbandman.
We had no wish to be snowbound for the winter in those wilds, with only two weeks' supply of food, and it was for this same reason we had not stopped to hunt that grizzly who had left a fourteen inch track over on Wiggins' Creek the same being Wahb of the Big Horn Basin, about whom I shall have something to say later.
My happy Christmas resulted from the ex-sheriff of this county being snowbound here. It seems that persons who come from a lower altitude to this country frequently become bewildered, especially if in poor health, leave the train at any stop and wander off into the hills, sometimes dying before they are found.
Belle entered Pauline's room to find her cousin revelling in the exquisite pathos of Whittier's Snowbound before dressing for dinner. The problem of clothes had been solved by Aunt Rutha in her pleasant, tactful way.
When Sandoria is snowbound it is not so very much quieter, even in its outer aspect, than at any other time; for the monotony of snow is no more complete than the monotony of yellow-gray prairie.
I fancied him killed by Indians on the trail, or snowbound and starving on the Plains. Each morning my notches on my calendar stick were made. Gradually their number grew till at last the twentieth was duly cut. But no Harrington came. The wolves, smelling meat within, had now begun to gather round in increasing numbers.
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