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Then they went forward once again , this time through a long patch of timber . `` If we gits through dat , we 'll be all right , '' declared the colored driver . The snow lay deep in the woods , but the horses proved equal to the occasion , and at last the timber was left behind and they came out on a ridge road where the snow was only a few inches in depth . Here they were able to make fairly good time , so that three o'clock found them almost within sight of the outskirts of Crumville . `` We 're going to make it easily , '' declared Ben . But he proved to be mistaken , for a little distance farther on they ran again into the deep snow and had to pass around one drift after another , finally going clear across several fields to another highway . As a result it was well after dark before they gained the road leading past the Wadsworth jewelry works .