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The Call of the Canyon

CHAPTER VII
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Only the fearfulness of love perhaps! She saw him complete his task and wipe his brown moist face and stride toward her, coming nearer, tall and erect with something added to his soldierly bearing, with a light in his eyes she could no longer bear.
The moment for which she had waited more than two months had come at last.
"Glenn--when will you go back East ?" she asked, tensely and low.
The instant the words were spent upon her lips she realized that he had always been waiting and prepared for this question that had been so terrible for her to ask.
"Carley," he replied gently, though his voice rang, "I am never going back East." An inward quivering hindered her articulation.
"Never ?" she whispered.
"Never to live, or stay any while," he went on.

"I might go some time for a little visit....

But never to live." "Oh--Glenn!" she gasped, and her hands fluttered out to him.

The shock was driving home.

No amaze, no incredulity succeeded her reception of the fact.


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