It would be an expensive business to rebuild the track and the frost would make things worse.

In fact, if they had any more trouble of the kind, they might be ruined.

Then he got up as he saw Kerr coming along the line.
In an hour or two the rails were up and they began to pull down the rockwork that faced the bank.

The ragged stones cut their numbed hands, their backs ached with lifting heavy weights, and they stumbled under the loads they carried up the snowy incline.

They had, however, help enough, for Charnock went away for a time and came back with three or four men from the construction gang.