It was not yet eleven o'clock when the two women heard the hum of the heavily loaded car and saw the men climb out again.

It was Doctor Barnes who came to the cabin.
"It's no use," said he.

"The fire has cut off the Tepee Creek trail.
The best fir is gone, and there's no hope of stopping the fire now.

If they took their car up, they must have left it in there--some of them went back up the trail.

They may be over on the West Fork; and if they've got there, they've got a shorter route down to the dams than around by the Valley road." He turned now to Mary Gage more specifically.