The prince himself might have been compelled to return to the war, but he would certainly leave orders in capable hands.

John never deluded himself for a moment upon that subject.

His shoveling in the snow made him quite sure now that a road led over the mountain and southward, and he had made up his mind to take the automobile and the two women and try it, as soon as the snow melted enough to permit of such an attempt.

One might get through, and he had proved for himself that fortune favors the daring.
In his explorations on the southern slope he came to a deep gulch in which the tops of scrub pines showed above the snow.

Following its edge for some distance his eye at length was caught by a dark shape on the rocks.