I will go far," said Warner in even tones.
"I wonder what's happening outside in the big valley," said Dick.
"Whatever it is it's happening without us," said Warner.

"But I fancy that General Sheridan will be more uneasy about us than we are about him.
We know what we have done, that our task is finished, but for all he knows we may have been trapped and destroyed." "But Shepard or the sergeant will get through to him." "Not for three or four days anyhow.

Not even men on foot can travel fast on a glassy sheet of ice.

Every time I look at it on the mountain it seems to grow smoother.

If I were standing on top of that ridge and were to slip I'd come like a catapult clear into the camp." "Nothing could tempt me to go up there now," said Dick.
"Maybe not, nor me either, but as I live somebody is on top of that ridge now." Dick's eyes followed his pointing finger, saw a black dot on the utmost summit, and then he snatched up his glasses.
"It's Slade, his very self!" he exclaimed in excitement.