human
Earl, we've got an everlasting hard climb before us, he whispered.
gpt
Do you think we'll make it?
human
We must make it, Randy, was the low and earnest reply.
gpt
It won't do to show the white feather now. Uncle would never forgive us.
human
Some parts of it look like crawling up the side of a house, and Randy shuddered.
gpt
If a fellow should fall, he'd break his neck sure.
human
I guess you're right, Randy; although it may not be so bad when one is right on top of it. There is a sort of a trail, you know, although it's not much. I heard Salmon Head tell Uncle he hoped it would be cold to-morrow night, and that we should start for the Pass about four or five o'clock in the afternoon. I wonder what he meant by that.
gpt
I heard Captain Zoss speaking of it. They start toward evening so as to pass the deepest snows on the summit about midnight when a crust forms to walk on, for at this season of the year the deep snows are too soft to be trusted when the sun is shining.
human
And what happens to a fellow, I wonder, if he breaks through the snow?
gpt
I don't know, I'm sure--I guess he goes to kingdom come, and Randy shuddered again.
human
We'll know all about it by this time to-morrow night.