"A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand:
but it shall not come nigh thee.

"Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold: and see the reward of the
ungodly.

"For thou, Lord, art my hope: thou hast set thine house of defence very
high.

"There shall be no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling.

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee In all thy
ways.

"They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot
against a stone.

"Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon
shalt thou tread under thy feet.

"Because He hath set His love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I
will set him up, because he hath known my name.

"He shall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in
trouble; I will deliver him and bring him to bonour.

"With long life will I satisfy him: and show him my salvation"

The Psalm made a deep impression upon me. "For he shall give his
angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways." How strange it
seems, in view of what happened to me, that George should have read
that sentence.

We arose to go on our separate ways, George twenty-five miles down the
valley to Grand Lake, and I fifteen miles up the valley to Hubbard.
The snow was falling thick and fast.

"You'd better make a cape of your blanket," suggested George. "Let me
fix it for you."

He placed the blanket around my shoulders, and on either side of the
cloth where it came together under my chin made a small hole with his
knife. Through these holes he ran a piece of our old trolling line,
and tied the ends. Then he similarly arranged his own blanket.

I held out my hand to him.

"Good-bye, George. Take care of yourself."

He clasped my hand warmly.

"Good-bye, Wallace. Expect help in five days."

Near the top of a knoll I stopped and looked back. With my afflicted
eyes I could barely make out George ascending another knoll. He also
stopped and looked back. I waved my hand to him, and he waved his hand
to me and shouted something unintelligible. Then he disappeared in the
snow, and as he disappeared a silence came on the world, to remain
unbroken for ten days.

XVIII. WANDERING ALONE

With every hour the storm gathered new force, and over the barren
knolls, along which my course for some distance lay, the snow whirled
furiously. The track George and I had made on our downw