"Whatever is it?" asked G. Mrs. Townley pointed riverwards to where a thin column of blue-grey smoke rose and hung like a cloud in the hot, still air.

Outwardly, gazing riverward through the dusty pane, she bore herself with utmost serenity.

He did not follow the road along which Joanne had come a short time before, but turned again into the winding trail that led riverward through the poplars.

The scattered, half-buried huts were more like earth-mounds, snow-encrusted, some with drift-logs propped against the front face looking riverwards.

"Your friend said something" She nodded faintly, riverwards, towards the mission sign.

A little later they were walking riverward toward a brilliant orange sky, against which the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument loomed gray and majestic.