18/23 The group before the door disintegrated and presently disappeared. Pat glanced at the sun, lighted a cigar, and asked: "Do we start a night shift ?" "Yes; whenever you can bring in the men." "Then I'll wire for some right away. The thermometer was five below this morning, and only twenty-two above this noon. She's cold at last." "Go to it, Pat. I'll stay here till Doc is through." When Carrigan had left him, Bryant sat down on a discarded oil tin lying on the ground--one of the square ten-gallon cans common about camps. |