Jack Triumphant in the Blizzard IOI 



distant point, and since that time we had 

 been trusting the wind. Now, as in the 

 eddying gusts the wind began whirling 

 around us, coming apparently from every 

 quarter, we were most emphatically brought 

 to realize that in all probability we had been 

 running in a very erratic course, for the last 

 two or three hours at least. 



Utterly bewildered, I stopped my dogs, 

 and as Alec's train came up near I shouted 

 to the lad : 



" Alec, I am afraid we are lost." 



" Yes, we are surely lost," was his not 

 very comforting reply. 



" It is a blizzard, and that is where we 

 have blundered," I said, " in allowing our- 

 selves to be caught in it and we so far from 

 shore." 



At the mention of blizzard, so dreaded by 

 those who know them best, Alec at once lost 

 heart, and by the utterance of the words I 

 have already quoted, and others in a similar 

 strain, showed that he was well aware of 

 our great danger. 



We were, however, resolved not to give up 

 without a struggle. So the question was; 

 What had best be done? That is always an- 



