20/38 "He's true blue!" "But what if he can't," Kit observed quietly. "What a situation for us! Here we are a thousand miles from a civilized town or a civilized people, and in a worse than trackless wilderness! The season, too, is passing. The straits will soon be closed with ice." "Only think of it!" Wade cried out,--"here on this frozen coast, with winter coming on! In a month it will be severe weather here. We've nothing but our cloth clothing!" Wade turned away; and for many minutes we were all silent. "This won't do! Wade has got the gloomiest side out! Come, rally from this! See, they're not gaining on the schooner! Look how she's bowling away! They haven't hit her yet. |