The Divide [antikvár]

One'"T^hey rose before dawn and stepped out beneath a moon--L less sky aswarm with stars. Their breath made clouds of the chill air and their boots crunched on the congealed gravel of the motel parking lot. The old station wagon was the only car there, its roof and hood veneered with a dim refracting frost. The boy fixed their skis to the roof while his father stowed their packs then walked around to remove the newspaper pinned by the wipers to the windshield. It was stiff with ice and crackled in his hands as he bailed it. Before they climbed into the car they Ungered a moment, just stood there listening to the silence and gazing west at the mountains silhouetted by stars.The httle town had yet to wake and they drove quietly north along Main Street, past the courthouse and the gas station and the old movie theater, through pale pools of Hght cast by the street lamps, the car's reflection gilding the darkened windows of the stores. And the sole witness to their leaving