There is a silence which seems to be unnatural, and my courage, like the warmth of my body, is methinks oozing out from my fingers." Cuthbert laughed.
"I have no doubt that your courage would come again much quicker than the warmth, Cnut, if there were any occasion for it.

A brisk walk will set you all right again, and banish these uneasy fancies.

To-night we shall be at the highest point, and to-morrow begin to descend towards Germany." All day the men kept steadily on.

The guide from time to time looked apprehensively at the sky; and although in the earlier part of the day Cuthbert's inexperienced eye saw nothing to cause the slightest uneasiness, towards the afternoon the scene changed.

Light clouds began to gather on the top of all the hills and to shut the mountain peaks entirely from view.