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James had considerable experience with, horses He knew at once that it

was probably a hopeless undertaking to change the mare's mind, or rather

her obstinacy However, he tried the usualto lead, but they were all, as he had

supposed froainst

fate itself seized hi,

bears, in fact, the aspect of fate itself It is at once sensate and

insensate

Jaht of Cleray h to a tree to tie her, and he tied her and

set out on foot It was a very dark night, cloudy and chilly and

threatening snow He walked on, as it were, through softly enveloping

shadohich see forward to an to be very

sentiment upon Clemency's mother, but, after all, he suddenly

discovered that he had a feeling for the girl herself He thought that

it was only the natural anxiety of any irl out alone at night, and beset by possible dangers,

but he realized hio

directly to Annie Lipton's home, some two miles farther on, then it

occurred to him that Cle dead or injured on the road, how in the world was he to see?

He felt in his pocket for matches, and found just one He lit that and

peered around While it burned he saw nothing except the frozen road

with its desolate borders of woods and brush, a fit scene for countless