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"Then he'll never drop again, Mr Glover, for if he slipped off the

ties he'd drop a thousand feet"

"The heaviest snow is right at the top of the hill?"

"Yes, sir"

"If we can cross the hill we can find hiet across that hill till you put in five hundred

shovellers, Mr Glover"

"That would take a week If he's alive we et hiht"

"Don't try to cross that hill with a plough, Mr Glover Mind my

words It's no use I've bucked with youto your death when you try that"

"There's the doctor now, Foley," Glover answered "Let him look you

over carefully Co to the talk, little of which she

understood, a growing fear had coht about her, and as she heard Glover walk away she

rose hurriedly and stepped to the doorway to detain him Glover had

disappeared, but before her, stretched on the couch back of the table,

lay McGraw She knew hiloo straight at

her She divined that he had been brought back hurt A chill passed

over her, a horror She hesitated a moment, and, fascinated, stepped

closer; then she knew she was staring at the dead