But just ez you like." "I will wait, then," said Hale hastily.
The rebuke, however, did him good service.

It preoccupied his mind, so that it remained unaffected by the dizzy depths, and enabled him to abandon himself mechanically to the sagacity of his horse, who was contented simply to follow the hoofprints of the preceding animal, and in a few moments they reached the broader trail without a mishap.

A discussion regarding their future movements was already taking place.
The impossibility of regaining the station at the Summit was admitted; the way down the mountain to the next settlement was still left to them, or the adjacent woods, if they wished for an encampment.

The ostler once more assumed authority.
"'Skuse me, gentlemen, but them horses don't take no pasear down the mountain to-night.

The stage-road ain't a mile off, and I kalkilate to wait here till the up stage comes.