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A Daughter of the Snows

CHAPTER XVI
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But her old man--he was full Russian, you know--he used to read it aloud to her.

But she knows what she knows and what her old man knew, and so do I." "And what do the three of you know ?" "Oh, that's tellin'," Bishop answered, coyly.

"But you wait and watch my smoke, and when you see it risin', you'll know, too." Matt McCarthy came in over the ice Christmas week, summed up the situation so far as Frona and St.Vincent were concerned, and did not like it.

Dave Harney furnished him with full information, to which he added that obtained from Lucile, with whom he was on good terms.
Perhaps it was because he received the full benefit of the sum of their prejudice; but no matter how, he at any rate answered roll-call with those who looked upon the correspondent with disfavor.

It was impossible for them to tell why they did not approve of the man, but somehow St.Vincent was never much of a success with men.


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