We do not want to carry more food than we shall need.

The rest we can send back with our blankets by the porters." Pierre Delouvain justified at once the ill words which had been spoken of him by Michel Revailloud.

He thought only of the burden which through this long day he would have to carry on his back.
"Yes, that is right," he said.

"We will take what we need for the day.
To-night we shall be in Chamonix." And thus the party set off with no provision against that most probable of all mishaps--the chance that sunset might find them still upon the mountain side.

Pierre Delouvain, being lazy and a worthless fellow, as Revailloud had said, agreed.