But would that time arrive soon enough?
It was a grim possibility,--a gambling wager that held forth hope, and at the same time threatened them with extinction.
For the same thing applied to Houston and Ba'tiste that applied to Blackburn and Thayer.

If they could not make good on their contract, the other mill was ever ready to step in.
"Eet all depen'," said Ba'tiste more than once during the snowy, frost-caked days in which they watched every freight train that pulled, white-coated, over the range into Tabernacle.

"Eet all depen' on the future.

Mebbe so, we make eet.

Mebbe so, we do not.