Doesn't appear to be any wind behind this snow." The air, though cold, was still.

The flakes were not yet falling heavily and they lay on the hard crust of snow as light as silk fluff.
What might be coming down in another hour from the darkness overhead, however, could not be foretold, while if both a gale and a great fall of snow occurred the labour of the night would be increased a hundred-fold.
Bryant's anxiety was no longer on account of the time limit fixed by the Land and Water Board.

He knew that since the revelations made in the sheriff's office the claimant Rodriguez would never press his case, even were the canal never completed.

But he had the keen desire of a tired man to clean up the job and be done, and a pride in keeping faith with himself in accomplishing what he had sworn he should do, build the project in ninety days.

He would never have it said by any one that he had failed in that.