13/14 The wind shut around him at once and plastered his clothes against his body as if he had been drenched to the skin in water. Then he closed the door. Always bothers him when Maggie gets scared of something--the old fool!" Maggie was an ancient, broken-down draft horse. Strange vicissitudes had brought her up into the mountains via the logging camp. She was kept, not because there was any real hauling to be done for Bill Campbell, but because, having got her for nothing, she reminded him of the bargain she had been. |