Chapter 13 THE PIT

"L'humanité a commencé tout entière par le crime .... C'était le vieux nourricier des hommes des cavernes."-ANATOLE FRANCE.

An old story now, these days of silent plodding through the driving snow.

But if outward conditions lacked variety, not so their cumulative effect upon poor human nature. A change was going on in the travellers that will