out, if you wish," said Dave, and gathered up both
reins once more. "I guess they have had their fill of running away."

"You turned them up the hill nicely."

"It was a hard pull," said Roger. "Dave, are you going to get out?" he
added, as he hopped to the ground.

"No, I am going to turn them around and drive them down to the road."

"They'll run away with you!" ejaculated the Englishman, in alarm.

"I won't give them a chance," was the quiet but firm reply.

"If you are going to ride, I'll do the same," said Roger, and clambered
back to his seat again. Granbury Lapham said he would walk for a while.

"I want to see how they act," he remarked, frankly. "I am not going to
risk my neck again until I know what I am doing."

With a firm hand Dave started the horses and turned them partly around.
They were inclined to be fretful, but he gave them no chance to gain the
mastery. He spoke to them in a voice they could not help but notice, and
was ready to turn them up the mountain side again at the first
indication of another "break."

"Dave, you certainly know how to manage horses," spoke up Roger, when
the road was reached. "It must be born in you."

"I suppose it is, Roger. My Uncle Dunston tells me that my father is a
very good horseman and that he and my mother used often to go out
horseback riding together."

Seeing how well Dave managed, Granbury Lapham entered the sleigh once
more, and away they went along the road and down the decline previously
mentioned. To retard the movement of the turnout and thus ease the
team, Dave kept partly in the deep snow, and consequently there was no
excuse for the horses running away.

Nearly a mile was covered when they saw Hendrik returning with the other
team. The Norwegian sleigh driver hailed their approach with joy, which
was considerably increased when he learned that the sleigh and the other
horses had suffered no damage and that the greater part of the outfit
had been saved.

"I was afraid somebody had fallen down the mountain side and been
killed," said he to Granbury Lapham. "It is a most dangerous portion of
this road. Last winter two men and a woman lost their lives close to
this very spot."

"We had all the trouble we wanted," said Dave, when the driver's remarks
had been translated by the Englishman.

Hendrik looked over the sleigh and the harness with care, and quarter of
an hour later they were moving toward Bojowak as rapidly as the state of
the road