human
It's a bitter night, and there's 'most four foot of snow on the range. I figured I'd look in to tell you it will be two or three days yet before you get the flour the folks at the settlements are sending up, he said.
gpt
A trooper has just come in with the mail, and he left the freighter and his beasts held up by the snow.
human
Somebody has just gone away?
gpt
No, said Leger.
human
We have had nobody here. We are expecting Ingleby, but he hasn't turned up yet.
gpt
Quite sure he's not outside there?
human
It's scarcely likely. It's a little too cold for anybody to stay outside when he needn't. Ingleby would certainly come in.
gpt
Well, said the corporal,
human
I guess I didn't see anybody, after all. It was quite dark, anyway, in among the trees. Winter's shutting down on us 'most a month before it should have done. It's kind of fortunate we sent the horses out when we did. I don't know what they wanted to bring them for. Nobody has any use for horses in this country.