Burt, Katharine Newlin, 1882-1977 / 2008-06-22 00:00:00

EBOOK SNOW-BLIND ***


Produced by Ketaki Chhabra and Wendy Crockett from the book.


SNOW-BLIND
BY
KATHARINE NEWLIN BURT
AUTHOR OF THE BRANDING IRON, Etc.


CHAPTER I

Under a noon sun the vast, flat country, buried deep in snow, lay
like a paper hoop rimmed by the dark primeval forest; its surface
shone with an unbearable brightness as of sun-struck glass, every
crystal gleaming and quivering with intense cold light. To the north
a single blunt, low mountain-head broke the evenness of the horizon
line.
Hugh Garth seemed to leap through paper like a tiny active clown as
he dropped down into the small space shoveled clear in front of his
hidden cabin door. The roof was weighted with drift, so that a curling
mass like the edge of a wind-crowded wave about to break hung low
over the eaves. Long icicles as thick as a man's arm stretched from
roof to ground in a row of twisted columns. Under this overhanging
cornice of snow near the door there was a sudden icy purple darkness.
As Hugh plunged down into it, his face lost a certain rapt brightness
and shadowed deeply. He let slip the load of fresh pelts from his
back, drew his feet from the skis which he stuck up on their ends
in the snow, and removed the fur cap from his head and the huge dark
spectacles from his eyes.
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