"You never can tell what it's going to do overnight.

Look there! Would you try to cross ?" "I wouldn't," replied Aldous.

"It's a foot higher than yesterday.

I wouldn't take the chance." "Not with two guides, a cook, and a horse-wrangler on your pay-roll--and a hospital bill as big as Geikie staring you in the face ?" argued Stevens, who had been sick for three months.

"I guess you'd pretty near take a chance.