The traveler sat up. "Blizzard?"

"Yes," Dan drawled in willing contribution to his uneasiness, "the real

Dakota article where blizzards are made. None of your eastern

imitations, but a ninety-mile wind that whets slivers of ice off the

frozen drifts all the way down from the North Pole. Only one good thing

about a blizzard--it's over in a hurry. You get to shelter or you freeze

to death."

A gust of wind flung a powder of snow stingingly against their faces.

The traveler withdrew his head turtlewise within the handsome collar in

final condemnation. "No man in his senses would ever have deliberately

come here to live."

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