The body gave the lie to that; while they themselves denied the vice of over-feeding.

Height, five feet, nine, she summed up from out of her gymnasium experience; and age anywhere between twenty-five and thirty, though nearer the former most likely.
"Haven't many blankets," he said abruptly, pausing to drain his cup and set it over on the grub-box.

"I don't expect my Indians back from Lake Linderman till morning, and the beggars have packed over everything except a few sacks of flour and the bare camp outfit.

However, I've a couple of heavy ulsters which will serve just as well." He turned his back, as though he did not expect a reply, and untied a rubber-covered roll of blankets.

Then he drew the two ulsters from a clothes-bag and threw them down on the bedding.
"Vaudeville artist, I suppose ?" He asked the question seemingly without interest, as though to keep the conversation going, and, in fact, as if he knew the stereotyped answer beforehand.