We shall all freeze to death." "Could you not get into the coach, sir, to keep warm ?" suggested old Adam; "you can be of no aid to me, you know.

When I have finished--you--you can step out and see if it is done to your satisfaction." For a moment the stranger hesitated, then said, sharply: "I think I will take your advice, my man; my feet are about as numb as they could well be, I assure you; and as you say, my standing here will not help you.

I can watch from the carriage window, and when the work is done step out and look at it." With that he hurried quickly to the vehicle, and with a thankfulness in his heart that words are weak to describe, and with a mental "God be praised," the old grave digger bent to his task with renewed energy.
Both men watched narrowly and anxiously, as spadeful after spadeful of dirt quickly disappeared from the white ground.

Then the white heaping snow was leveled over the dark narrow space, and the grave digger announced that his work was completed.
"I do not know as it is worth while to examine it; the old fellow knows his business," remarked Halloran to his companion, who was by this time fairly well under the weather from large draughts of brandy he had drunk from a bottle he had seized from the bar.

"Step up on the box beside the driver"-- thrusting a bank note into the old grave digger's nervous, trembling hand--"we will take you along the road as far as we go." For an instant old Adam hesitated, but it was only for an instant, for he said to himself he must not arouse the suspicion of this stranger by refusing to ride, especially as he had begged for that permission so short a time before.