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the blockade, now serious, in the eighth district Half the first page

was given to alares Two

rass country, and a ski

runner froht days, told

of thirty-five feet of snow in the Whitewater hills

Sleepy Cat reported eighteen inches of fresh snow, and a second delayed

despatch under the sa special froer, and five locohth district

Gertrude found no interest in the news or the discussion She could

only wonder why she did not see Glover during the day, and when he rew sick with uncertainty Leaving the

dining-roo him,

Soloiven her

in the one off duty before she left her rooies she hastened

to her room and locked her door to devour her lover's words She saw

that he had written her in the dead of night to explain his going, and

to say good-by Bucks' e he had enclosed "But I shall work

very hard every hour I aet back the sooner," he pro over the peaks on the West End you

will know that I aht for you"