"They'd take a good long look for you, George, knowing what a tremendous fellow you are, and then Dick and I would be compelled to take the trouble and danger of rescuing you." "I hold you to that," said Warner.

"You do hereby promise and solemnly pledge yourselves in case of my capture by Slade, Skelly or anybody else, to come at once through any hardship and danger to my rescue." "We do," they said together, and they meant it.
Their situation was uncommon, and their pleasure in it deepened.

The snow still fell, but the lean-tos, built with so much skill by soldiers and mountaineers, protected them, and the fires before them sank to great beds of gleaming coals that gave out a grateful warmth.

Far overhead the wind still shrieked and howled, as if in anger because it could not get at them in the deep cleft.

But for Dick all these shrieks and howls were transformed into a soothing song by his feeling of comfort, even of luxury.