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Lady Merton, Colonist

CHAPTER VI
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I tracked him there, shortly afterwards.

He was probably killed in a scuffle with some miners as drunken as himself." There was a silence, which he broke very humbly.
"Do you forgive me?
I know I am not sane on this point.

I believe I have spoilt your day." She looked up, her eyes swimming in tears, and held out her hand.
"It's nothing, you know," she said, trying to smile--"in our case.
Philip is such a baby." "I know; but look after him!" he said earnestly, as he grasped it.
The trees thinned, and voices approached.

They emerged from the forest, and found themselves hailed by the Chief Justice.
The journey up the pass was even more wonderful than the journey down.
Sunset lights lay on the forests, on the glorious lonely mountains, and on the valley of the Yoho, roadless and houseless now, but soon to be as famous through the world as Grindelwald or Chamounix.

They dismounted and explored the great camps of workmen in the pass; they watched the boiling of the stream, which had carved the path of the railway; they gathered white dogwood, and yellow snow-lilies, and red painter's-brush.
Elizabeth and Anderson hardly spoke to each other.


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