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Updated: May 3, 2025
At midday they began the ascent of the divide itself. Behind them, looking down and back, they could see the long line of stampeders breaking up. Here and there, in scores of places, thin smoke-columns advertised the making of camps. As for themselves, the going was hard. They wallowed through snow to their waists, and were compelled to stop every few yards to breathe.
The cocks crowed when they woke, without reference to the dawn, for it is never quite dark; there were only a few full-grown roosters in Wrangell, half a dozen or so, to awaken the town and give it a civilized character. After sunrise a few languid smoke-columns might be seen, telling the first stir of the people.
Even as he looked, thin smoke-columns were rising along the slopes and lesser peaks, and more were beginning to rise. "My word," Tambi grinned. "Plenty boy stop 'm bush lookout along you eye belong him." Van Horn smiled understandingly.
At midday they began the ascent of the divide itself. Behind them, looking down and back, they could see the long line of stampeders breaking up. Here and there, in scores of places, thin smoke-columns advertised the making of camps. As for themselves, the going was hard. They wallowed through snow to their waists, and were compelled to stop every few yards to breathe.
Just about then he heard a couple of loud shots, and saw two white smoke-columns ascend. There was a sudden awakening, and an unrest among the birds. "Hunters! Hunters!" they cried. "Fly high! Fly away!" Then the boy saw, finally, that they were travelling all the while over the sea-coast, and that they certainly were not in heaven.
Smoke-columns speedily mark the joyful scene of their labors as the roasting-fires are kindled, and, at night, assembled in gay circles garrulous as jays, they begin the first nut feast of the season.
Already they had seen and scorned them during their first stay at the bungalow. They felt that nothing more was to be seriously feared from such survivors of the Horde as had escaped the great Battle of the Tower a year and a half previously. "Those chaps won't bother us again; I'm sure of that!" said Allan, nodding toward the smoke-columns that rose, lazily blue, on the horizon.
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