The Norther had merely drawn an icy veil between.

He shivered, and the horse under him shivered, too.

Once more he wrapped around his body the grateful folds of the serape and he drew on a pair of buckskin gloves, a part of his winter equipment.
Then he rode on straight toward San Antonio as nearly as he could calculate.

The Norther increased in ferocity.

It brought rain, hail and snow, and the night darkened greatly.