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"Lord, how blazin' mad she is! But shucks! she'll git over it by mornin'." Mr. Hines was shivering with cold. He still whistled mechanically, but the hand that held the sputtering candle shook to the trip-hammer thumping of his heart. "The balance of 'em must of got lost," he thought, listening to the lonesome howl of the wind across the prairie. "It's too c-cold for snipe, I reckon.
Then the horses wheeled and stamped, the stage careened and creaked, presently to roll out of sight in the gloom. "You're shiverin'," said Dale, suddenly, looking down upon Helen. She felt his big, hard hand clasp hers. "Cold as ice!" "I am c-cold," replied Helen. "I guess we're not warmly dressed." "Nell, we roasted all day, and now we're freezing," declared Bo.
"Well, I did just as you t-t-told me, Davy. I went up the lane till I c-came to the gully and saw the stone wall. I found a good b-bush about twenty-five yards from the wall, and got behind it and waited till I began to feel c-cold. I pulled Ben's frock on, and left the neck of it open so that I could get the stock of the gun in to my shoulder, and spread out your f-frock and knelt on it.
"Oh, no, I don't know their lingo; but I could understand just what he said, and what's m-more, I know he m-meant it. I didn't want to be a c-cold corpse out there in the woods, so I got up and struggled on again. "At last they camped for the night. They laid me on my back and t-tied my hands and feet to stakes d-driven into the ground. "I saw Major P-Putnam, who had been captured by some Injuns.
You lean ag'in' it an' it freezes you; you turn your back to it an' you've got to go to clawin' icicles out of your back. Why in hell can't they have a wind that's got some sense to it?" "It ain't c-cold, Shorty," jibed a slender puncher with a saturnine eye and a large, mobile mouth. "Kells," grinned the giant; "your voice is froze, right now!" And yet the men enjoyed the cold air.
They were so near together now, that she became aware how he was trembling shuddering fairly. "You're c-cold," she said. He managed at last to speak, and as he did so, reached out and took her by the shoulders. "Come home," he said. "You must come home." At that she stepped back and shook her head. But he had discovered while his hands held her, that she was trembling, too.
Then he stalked away and in a few strides disappeared. Bo sat down to begin unlacing her shoes. Helen could just see her pale, pretty face and big, gleaming eyes by the light of the stars. It struck her then that Bo was going to make eminently more of a success of Western life than she was. "Nell, those fellows are n-nice," said Bo, reflectively. "Aren't you c-cold? Say, he said hurry!"
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