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They dreamed of sledges and dog teams, and Johansen would call out to the dogs in his sleep, urging them on. Then they would wake up again in the bitter morning, rouse up the dogs, lying huddled up together and growling at the cold, disentangle the trace lines, load the sledges, and off they would go through the great solitude.
Upon coming to a cross-road they suddenly caught sight of a hurrying, straggling, flying throng, wounded officers, soldiers without arms and without organization, runaway teams from the train, all men and animals mingled in wildest confusion, wild with panic.
'What ails ye? says I. 'Have ye seen th' divvle? 'Yes, he says, bendin' his head over th' bar, an' lookin' sivinty years instead iv forty-five." Any of the Archey Road cars that got out of the barns at all were pulled by teams of four horses, and the snow hung over the shoulders of the drivers' big bearskin coats like the eaves of an old-fashioned house on the blizzard night.
One of the teams hasn't shown up, and according to the conditions of the race no less than six entrants can start. We've only got five, and if the race isn't ridden the crowd will go wild. Here's a chance for you and your friend to help us out of a bad fix and at the same time maybe win a nice piece of money for yourselves.
Quickly he pulled it apart and began again. The Fox and Eagle patrols jumped to their feet and pleaded for their respective teams to hurry. Wally calmly ran the bandage up the calf of Alex's leg. "Finished," cried the Foxes and the Eagles. "Finished," cried Wally. "Gosh!" whispered Bobby. "His bandage looks neater than theirs."
And say, maybe there wasn't some tough mugs there neither. Uh! "Well, the referee he gives the teams a talking to about keeping the nation-al game clean and free from disgrace. 'The first man, he says, 'that forgets he's playing lacrosse and begins laying the hickory on anybody, he says, ''ll get a good long penalty.
"He has gone four or five months' journey due north, in charge of three teams loaded with lares and penates and tools, and cooking utensils, and rations, and other things too numerous to particularise, belonging once to Kooltopa, but now to a new station in South-western Queensland. Hence I say he's gone to a warmer climate. Not much of a joke, I admit."
Runnymede home station Mooney and Montgomery, owners; J. G. Montgomery, managing partner was a mile or so beyond the further corner of the ram-paddock, and was the central source of danger. Presently the tea leaves were thrown out of the billies; the tuckerboxes were packed on the pole-fetchels; and the teams got under way.
Of late this had been the duty of the sub-lessee, and as no teams passed his isolated dwelling, and as he had not seen fit to answer his landlord's communications, even verbally, by the boy from one of the lower ranches who had carried up the missives, all Gwynne knew was that Mr. Clink was alive, and that the ranch was free of winter débris. They found the gentleman sitting on a stump.
"Confound it all!" Sinclair exclaimed. "What are we going to do? I can't afford to let a double team go, and besides, it would mean a loss of two days. Let me see. How far is it to Camp Number Three?" "Three miles if you go by way of the cut-off, but four if you go around. The cut-off hasn't been used much by the teams this winter, and it is little more than a foot-path."
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