"You did very well, Wallie--very well.

It was not altogether nice, was it?
But you won't have to go back." Walter Hine had indeed crossed the glacier without complaint.

There had been times when he had shivered, times when his heart within him had swelled with a longing to cry out, "Let us go back!" But he had not dared.

He had been steadied across the narrow bridge with the rope, hauled up the ice-walls and let down again on the other side.

But he had come through.