No longer a road-house on the incandescent road to dawn, there is something hangdog about its very waiters, moving through the easy maze of half-filled tables; an orchestra, sheepish of its accomplishment, can lift even a muted melody above the light babel of light diners.

Dogs for teams can be purchased at nearly any of the line of Hudson Bay posts that form a chain of road-houses on the trip.

Supper-time in the American road-house is an hour severely observed, and you disregard it at the peril of your empty stomach, for no larders seem so hermetically sealed as the larders of American country hotels after the appointed hour, and no favour so impossible to grant as even a ham sandwich, if you should be so much a stranger to local ordinances as to expect it after the striking of the hour.

But at the first road-house that showed a blue-and-white telephone sign he left it, and into the iron box at the end of the bar dropped a nickel.

I'm speaking from a road-house in the Bronx; going straight from here to the bank.

She now was proprietress of the road-house in the note described as Kessler's Café.

The road-house is an old farmhouse built over, with the barns changed into garages.

" Wharton nodded in approval, and, while he wrote, Rumson and the detective planned how, without those inside the road-house being aware of their presence, they might be near it.

That he might know they were on watch, they agreed, after they dismissed the taxi-cabs, to send one of them into the Boston Post Road past the road-house.

"Is there a road-house called Kessler's beyond here?"

"You know perfectly well you had no right to bring me up here; to drag me into a row in your road-house.

Enough of his strength soon came back to make real walks possible and during the second week, with a two-horse team and a side-bar buggy, they managed, without any ill effect upon him, an excursion across the valley and up the opposite mountainside to a log cabin road-house where they had lunch.

Putting them on the piazza steps, she says, looks ostentatious, and suggests a beer-saloon or a road-house.

"If those lamps are to be a souvenir of the campaign, they ought to suggest road-houses and beer-saloons.

Sometimes they slept in their tent, or again in road-houses and in Indian villages.

" "She's a classy quilt," Laughing Bill said, on the way back to the road-house.

Harkness, who had led the way up the hill, plodded onward for a time before discovering that his companion had paused; then, through the ring of hoar frost around his parka hood, he called back: "I'll hike down to the road-house and warm up.

Leaving the crest of the ridge behind, the dogs began to run; they soon brought up in a tangle at the road-house door.

The travelers put up that night at the Tin Road-house, a comfortless shack sheathed with flattened kerosene cans, and Folsom's irritation at his new partner increased, for Harkness was loud, boastful, and blatantly egotistical, with the egotism that accompanies dense ignorance.

Leaving the last road-house behind them, they came into a hilly section of great white domes, high hog-backs, and ramifying creeks, each one exactly like its neighbor; two days' travel through this, according to Harkness, should have brought them to the Imnachuck, where there was food and shelter again.

They left their stove and tent and grub-box behind, planning to make a road-house every night except during the long jump from the Imnachuck to Crooked River.

By some miracle of good luck, or as a result of some unsuspected power of resistance, he finally came raving into the Crooked River Road-house.

" WIFE (on auto tour)"That fellow back there said there is a road-house a few miles down the road.