Still, there was Mrs.
Jimmy working down at the store, and that secret belonged to her." He stopped abruptly with a little gesture as of one shaking off a painful memory, and looked down across the climbing pines to the lake in the hollow behind them.

It still shone steelily, and apparently not very far away, though it had cost the men strenuous toil all day to traverse the distance that divided them from it.

Seaforth, who watched him, noticed something unusual in his attitude, for his comrade stood very still with eyes that never for a moment wavered from one point in the valley.
"Do you see anything down there ?" he said.
"Yes," said Alton grimly.

"I see smoke." "There is nothing astonishing in that," said Seaforth.

"I damped down the bark well, and raked up the soil to shut off the draught.