Evan Merritt Post, The silent cabin
“ He came to dislike Miller in this moment, and inasmuch as he felt this way, he disliked also the man’s actions, disliked the way he fondled those moccasins which the dead man once had worn. Oh, he was probably a fool, no doubt, he reasoned, feeling this way. ”
Evan Merritt Post, The silent cabin
“ Steel watched him with growing disapproval. Under ordinary circumstances he himself might have been tempted to take some of the dead man’s belongings, particularly those moccasins which had caught Miller’s eye. They would, if left, only fall to pieces and rot. But somehow the very eagerness with which the big man had seized upon the property of the dead man created in him a distaste for the proceedings. ”
Evan Merritt Post, The silent cabin
“ Don’t concern yourself. There’s food enough here in the cabin to last till spring, if something else doesn’t turn up. I’ll make out all right.”Again Miller shrugged. “Suit yourself,” he said, and without another word went down the drifted slope to where the sled waited. A moment later the jingling bells of the departing team drifted back through the still, frosty air to the young man.For two days Steel worked. The frozen ground was indeed like solid concrete. Even the pick which he had found in the shed adjoining the rear of the cabin failed to make much impression. ”
