All the provisions they could carry besides their blankets could not last them to exceed 10 days, and I well knew they could hardly get off the desert in that time.

Mr.Abbott was a man I loved fondly.

He was good company in camp, and happy and sociable.

He had shown no despondency at any time until the night of the last meeting and the morning of the parting.

His chances seemed to me to be much poorer than my own, but I hardly think he realized it.