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Marette had not prepared the room for him, and her possessions were there It did not strike his that are mysteriously used in the process of a lady's toilette It was their nuht have expected thehter at Ottawa, but not here--and much less farther north What he saas of exquisite net, his eyes were drawn to so else It was a row of shoes neatly and carefully arranged on the floor at one side of the dressing-table

He stared at them, astounded Never had he seen such an array of feminine footwear intended for the same pair of feet And it was not Northern footwear Every individual little beauty in that a to which he had long been a stranger There were buttoned boots, laced boots, brown boots, black boots, and white boots, with dangerously high and fragile looking heels; there were dainty little white kid slippers, slippers with bows, slippers with cut steel buckles, and slippers with dainty ribbon ties; there were high-heeled oxfords and high-heeled patent leather puasped He reached over, moved by an automatic sort of impulse, and took a satiny little puave hi to feel like one prying into a sleeper's secrets, he looked inside it The size was there--number three And it had come from Favre's in Montreal! One after another he looked inside half a dozen others And all of them had come from Favre's in Montreal The little shoes, more than all else that he had seen or that had happened, sent a question pounding through his brain Who was Marette Radisson?

And that question was followed by other questions, until they tumbled over one another in his head If she was froed in the North, if she was a part of it, as she taking all of this apparently worthless footith her? Why had she co? What was she to Kedsty? Why was she hiding under his roof? Why-He stopped hi to find some one answer in all that chaos of questions It was iht seized him Ludicrously he dropped upon his knees in front of the row and with a face growing hotter each moment examined them all But he wanted to know And the discovery he made was that htly, however, that the impression of the foot was barely visible