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HS CHAPTER XIV I IT began to snow on the morning of the third czxf of their trip home, not far from Kintiel. To ground, where it had any dampness in it, Lad! been frozen since the night before, and they hurried under a threatening sky, having still a good day’s ride before them. The storm ca down like timber-wolves, rushing. A mountai- top wind sent the dry flakes whirling past, stirz : ing their ears and the sides of their faces; the- was no sun, they could see only a few yards ahe . of them. Pulling their blankets up over ther heads, they guided themselves by the wind their backs. i An Indian takes the weather passively, accep: i ing and enduring it without the Europear mental revolt or impatience. Comfort and fai living had changed this to some degree in Laug- - ing Boy; he was unusually aware of discomfor-l& and resentful, rating the blizzard as colder the it was. Slim Girl was simply miserable. The did not speak, but jogged on, punishing them horses. | Time passed and the wind slackened, so thal [GLU TY BT SRY

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