"There should have been another, and a horse that breaks his tether can't pull out the peg.

Still, I don't think he broke it." "But," said Seaforth, "the thing is broken." Tom of Okanagan smiled in a curious fashion while Alton reached out and laid his finger on the hide.

"One can't be sure of anything," he said.
"Still, one could fancy that had felt the knife before it snapped." There was silence for almost a minute, and the shadows of the great firs seemed to close in upon the camp.

Then Alton rose up and stretched his limbs wearily.
"I am kind of tired," he said.

"There's a good deal to be done to-morrow.".