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She clasped her two hands tightly in her lap "Because, after those four terrible years, you were the first ame to the end Don't askI a you all you can know, all you SHALL know But I did find it out And then I learned that you were not going to die Kedsty told me that And when I had talked with you I knew that you would play any game square, and Iyou all this--just to let you know that I have faith in you, and that youmine, and you o with Laselle's brigade and leave et what has happened You et what MAY happen You can not helptime from now--you should happen to find the Valley of Silent Men--"

He waited, his heart pounding like a fist

"I may--be there," she finished, in a voice so low that it was scarcely above a whisper

It see way off, and it was not in his direction And then she smiled, not at him, but in a half-hopeless little way

"I think I shall be disappointed if you don't find it," she said then, and her eyes were pure as the blue flowers from which they had stolen their color, as she looked at hireat Sulphur Country beyond Fort Simpson, ard between the Two Nahannis?"

"Yes That is where Kilbane and his patrol were lost The Indians call it the Devil Country Is that it?"

She nodded "They say no living thing has ever been through the Sulphur Country," she said "But that is not true I have been through it It is beyond the Sulphur Country you h that gap between the North and the South Nahanni That is the way YOU o if you should ever find it, Jeems, for otherwise you would have to coway, and the country is so great that you would never come upon it in a thousand years The police will not find you there You will always be safe Perhaps I shall tell you ht Imore And you must not question me"