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When Marie and Mrs Whitney carate fire, but the note lay hidden over her heart, for in it he had

whispered that while he ay every night at eight o'clock and every

, he should kiss

her lips and her eyes as he had kissed theht o'clock caht o'clock, ain were his to do hat he would Later

Doctor Lanning came in and she roused to hear the news about the snow

Between Sleepy Cat and Bear Dance two passenger trains were stalled,

and on Blackbird hill the snoas reported four feet deep on the level

When the doctor had gone and Marie had retired, Gertrude's aunt talked

to her seriously about her father, whose almost frantic condition over

what he called Gertrude's infatuation was alar

Her aunt explained how her final refusal of Allen Harrison, a

connection on which her father had set his heart, ht result in the

total disruption of the plans which held so ether;

and how i

herself away on an obscure Western man