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CHAPTER v-continued.

scious condition and brought to Antelope
iOteL Antelope Is cut of by storm.
CHAPTER V-Continued.
I was tired" he said slowly I'D
worked too hard and l thought the
mountains would do me good. ] car
get time off at the bank when l want
and Isthought I'd take, holiday and
come up here where I was last sum
mer. | knew the place and liked the
hssei. I wanted to get a good way off
aut OF the city and away from my
~c5k. AS for walking up here that
AIternoon-Pm very strong and l
never thought for a moment such
blizzard was coming down"
He lifted his head and turned
toward the window. then raising one
hand rubbed Il across his forehead
and eyes. There was something in
the gesture that silenced the young
girl. She thought he felt tired and
had been talking too much and she
was guilty conscious Of her laugh
ter and loquacity.
They sat without speaking for some
moments. Dominick made no attempt
to break the silence when she moved
noiselessly to the stove and pushed
In more wood His face was turned
from her and she thought he had fall
len asleep when he suddenly moved
and said:
Isn't 1t strange that l have never
met you before?"
She uac HE
neither feebleness nor fatigue, in fact
It had the fresh alertness of a return
to congenial topics. She determined.
however. to be less laxative. less en-
couraging to the weakening exertions
Of general conversation. So she spoke
with demure brevity.
Yes, very. But you were at col
iege for four years, and the year you
came back l was In Europe"
He looked at her ruminatingly, and
nodded.
But I've seen you," he said. at the
theater. | was too sick at first TO rec
ognlze you. but afterward l knew I'd
seen you. with your father and your
brother Gene"
1t was her turn to nod. She thought
1t best to say nothing, and waited.
But his eyes bent inquiringly upon
her, and the waiting silence seemed
TO demand a comment. She made the
arst one that occurred to her:
Whom were you within"
My wife," said the young man.
She murmured vague sentence OF
l. ~
tn speak, no matter how embarrassing
the pause became She even thought
of taking up her book and was about
to stretch her hand for it, when he
said:
But 1t seems so queer when our
and knew Gene, and you know my
sister Corneia SO we'll"
She drew her hand back and leaned
forward, frowning and staring in front
of her, as she sent her memory back
ward cropping for data.
Well, you see a sort of series OF
events prevented IT, When We were
little our parents lived in different
places. Ages ago when we first came
down FROM Virginia City you were liv-
ing somewhere eIfe, in Sacramento,
wasn't it? Then you were at school.
Gnd after that you went East to col
lege for four years ard when you got
back from college was in Europe
And when | came back from Europe
that's over two years ago now-why
then"
She had again bought up against
his marriage. this time with a shock
that was somewhat of SCATTERING
nature.
Why. then" she repeated faltering-
ly. realizing where she was-"why
then-let's see"
Then had married" he said oui-
city.
"Oh. yes, of course she assented.
trying to impart a suggestion of sud
den innocent remem 9rance to her
tone '"You had married. Why. of
course"
An hour later when tie doctor came
back she was kneeling on the floor by
the open stove door, softly building up
the fire. At the sound or the opening
door she looked up quickly. and, her
hands being occupied. gave a silencing
jerk of her head toward tae sleeping
man.
The doctor looked at them both.
The scene was like picturs of some
primitive domestic interior where
youth and beauty had made a nest,
warmed by that symbol of life, fire.
which one replenished while the other
slept.