The harsh and powerful face of the speaker became transfigured; one divined in him some hidden motive which was driving him to contest and belittle the main currents and sympathies about him.

He spoke as a prophet, but the faith which envenomed the prophecy lay far out of sight.
Anderson took it quietly.

The Chief Justice smiled.
"It might have been," he said, "it might have been! This railroad has made the difference." He stretched out his hand towards the line and the pass.

"Twenty years ago, I came over this ground with the first party that ever pushed through Rogers Pass and down the Illecillewaet Valley to the Pacific.

We camped just about here for the night.