We've twenty acres cleared here, with the cabin in the center of it, an' it singed my beard and burned her hair and scorched our hands, and my pigs died out there from the heat of it.

Mebby it's a place to sleep in for the night you want, stranger ?" "No, I'm going on," said Jolly Roger, the blood in his veins running with the chill of water.

"How far before I come to the end of fire ?" "Ten miles on.

It started this side of the next settlement." Jolly Roger drew back and the door closed, and standing on the railroad once more he saw the light go out and after that the occasional barking of the settler's dog grew fainter and fainter behind them.
He felt a great weariness in his bones and body now.

With hope struck down the exhaustion of two nights and a day without sleep seized upon him and his feet plodded more and more slowly over the uneven ties of the road.