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Running Water

CHAPTER XXIV
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The morning was cold, and one by one the porters, Garratt Skinner, and Walter Hine, gathered about the blaze.
Overhead the stars glittered in a clear, dark sky.

It was very still; no sound was heard at all but the movement in the camp; even on the glacier a thousand feet below, where all night long the avalanches had thundered, in the frost of the early morning there was silence.
Garratt Skinner looked upward.
"We shall have a good day," he said; and then he looked quickly toward Walter Hine.

"How did you sleep, Wallie ?" "Very little.

The avalanches kept me awake.

Besides, I slipped and fell a hundred times at the corner of the path," he said, with a shiver.


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