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But when they pitched camp for the second night Folsom felt compelled to remind his partner that they were behind their schedule, and that this was the last of their grub. "Are you sure you're going right?" he inquired. "Sure? Of course I'm sure. D'you think I'm lost?" Folsom fed some twisted willow-tops into the sheet-iron stove. "I wouldn't recommend you as a pathfinder," said he.
At the bottom of the fields to our right there was a line of willows, beyond the willows there was the river, and behind the river bank, on the further side, were the German lines. The grey smoke of their fire was still tangled in the willow-tops. Colville drew up under the lee of the last house in the village. He didn't like the look of that open road. Neither did I. "Go on," said Viola.
I could even mark, without seeing a living soul, where they caught it and where it was fighting madly but in utter silence while they were doing it to death so eloquent were the feathery willow-tops of the tragedy that agitated each separate slender stem to frenzy. Suddenly I turned and looked at the Wyandotte, squatting motionless beside me.
The grade increased, soon brittle willow-tops brushed against the speeding sled: this brush grew higher as the two men, blinded now by the gale, stumbled onward behind the team. They emerged from the gulch into a wider valley, after a while, and a mile further on the dogs burst through a grove of cottonwoods and fetched up before a lighted cabin window.
The strongest man gave up first and lay down, babbling of things to eat. His companion buried him, still alive, and broke down the surrounding willow-tops for a landmark, then he staggered on. By some miracle of good luck, or as a result of some unsuspected power of resistance, he finally came raving into the Crooked River Road-house.
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