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Again the world came back to Kent, the world that lay just beyond his openBut scarcely had O'Connor gone when it began to change, and in spite of his deter up with that change a thing that was oppressive and ss of the forests were changing their tones and colors under the darkening approach of stores went out The shimmer of spruce and cedar and balsaold and silver of birch and poplar dissolved into a ghostly and unaniloom spread itself like a veil over the river that only a short tilory of the sun in the faces of dark-visaged loo of thunder

For the first time since the mental excite loneliness He still was not afraid of death, but a part of his philosophy was gone It was, after all, a difficult thing to die alone He felt that the pressure in his chest was perceptible greater than it had been an hour or two before, and the thought grew upon hi for the "explosion" to coain He had the desire to call out for Cardigan He would have welcolad cry Yet more than all else would he have had at his side in these moments of distress a wo the earth with its desolation, bridged vast spaces for hiht-have-beens of yesterday

He saw, as he had never guessed before, the iulf between helplessness and the wild, brute freedom of man, and his soul cried out--not for adventure, not for the savage strength of life--but for the presence of a creature frailer than hiht of all huled with hian had told him there would be ht hirip of this that was on him There was a bell at hand, but he refused to use it, for he sensed his oardice His cigar had gone out, and he relighted it Hehis irl, and Kedsty He tried to visualize McTrigger, thefor Kedsty in the office at barracks He pictured the girl, as O'Connor had described her, with her black hair and blue eyes--and then the storm broke