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moved on again. descending the steer
side Of a little ravlne. and she t0i-
lowed. One of his suowshoes caught
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seasoned wood crack. He looked down.
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he reached the bottom Of the slope. she
leaped downward from a little height
behind him and crashed down upon his
trailing snowshoe just behind the heel
The rending snap Of the wood came
beneath her feet. Had she broken
through his shoe or snapped her own?
She sprang back, as he cried out and
swung in an attempt To grasp her; he
lunged to follow her, and she ran a
few steps away and stopped. At his
next step his foot entangled in the
mesh OF the broken snOwshoe, and he
stopped, cursing. TO strip It of and
hurl It from him; then he tore off the
one from the other foot, and threw it
away, and lurched after her again; but
now he sank above his knees and fioun-
dered in the snow. She stood for g
moment while the half-mad. half
drunken figure struggled toward her
along the side Of the ravine; then she
ran TO where the tree trunks hid her
from him. He gained the top Of the
slope and turned In the direction she
had gone; assured then. apparently,
that she had flown in fear OF him, he
started back more swiftly toward the
beach She followed. keeping out OF
his sight among the trees.
To twerty-six- he had cOunted-tO
twenry-siI. each time That told that
he knew one was living among those
who had been upon the ferryl What
one9 It could only be one Of two to
dismay him so; there had been only
two on the ferry whose rescue he had
feared only Two who. living. he would
have let Lie upon this beach which he
had chosen and set aside for his pa
troll. while he waited for him to diel
She forced herself on. unsparingiy,
as she saw Henry gain the shore and
as, believing himself alone, he hurried
northward- She could not rest; she
could not let herself be exhausted.
Nerciless minute after minute she
raced him thus A dark shap@a fig
ure lay stretched upon the Ice ahead
Beyond and still farther out, some
thing which seemed the fragments OF
a Hfeboat tossed Up and down where
the waves Numbered and cleaned at
the edge Of the foe.
Heury's pace quickened; hers quick
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shelter of the trees and scrambled
down the steep pitch Of the bluff.
shouting. crying aloud Henry turned
| about and saw her; he halted. and she
passed him with a rush and got be-
tween him and the form upon the ice,
| before she turned and faced him.