CHAPTER VI.
THE SHADOW "But why must _you_ go, Tom ?" Grace's tones rang with nervous dread.
"Can't some one else adjust matters satisfactorily ?" "No." Tom's reply was freighted with gloom.

"I understand those men up there and can get along better with them than a new superintendent could.

It wouldn't be worth while hiring one.

Mr.Mackenzie isn't dangerously ill.

He'll be about again in two or three weeks.