| Show huddled Their together farewell storm gale they by the the dust it to and headed growing and vision make cold intensity debris of the blown two shelter toward about young before not quieted his was down winter still half to bad Adelia along the walk but three her the and hours wailing Taid wait in she the She actually with the not only had grown away he can flakes rhythm with head least then stop off of snow back at and mile of As this too the cabins thought underneath chair her and gets one by the closed sundown swirled rocking protected and began man who morning storm weather the of more until had if the clearer first at and safety had the fact that George Adelia momentarily worked Perhaps for was her normally cabin the sucked that cabin He contemplated crossed her mind the cabin door grateful coat to the way Susan by snow She walked to the large wooden rocker sat down to nurse the fitful baby George tall robust wasbuilder by trade had left by sunrise that which the girls the whose mind had been concerned girls suddenly realized that intense This realization coupled with was somewhere out in the storm unnerved without of home fly Adelia Washburn Susan blowing muted Adelia would to the long obscured started the was Before hoped in and Adelia shelter eyes of One good thing about it she thought the Indians wonbe doing much raiding withblizzard outside Comforted she fell into an exhausted sleep the baby napping in her arms It must have been the ominous silence that awoke Adelia long three hours later She lifted the still sleeping baby and placed her in the nearby cradle Outside the sky had grown dark prematurely but the thick snow still whirled with the howling wind and already drifts of the white stuff had for made mounds against Adelia to open it the cabin door making it difficult Although George was due home within the hour she somehow knew he was safe in someone else cabin had and Adelia not attempted to make builtfire and walked it through the storm to the table where the bread honey and butter still lay out She 1itcandle and hungrily cutthick piece buttered it generously and spread it with honey By the time she had finished little could be seen in the dark cabin except immediately around the two sources of light Extinguishing one she moved again close to the hearth wrappedquilt about her and sat in the old -42 |
