Excerpt: ...Mr. Holcomb for all you see; I really had nothing to do with it." His wife did not reply. Only Margaret's eyes met his own-a pair of brown eyes that seemed to be half sunshine and half tears. As they drew up to the wide veranda of the camp, the trapper and the Clown came slowly across the compound to meet them; at the heels of the trapper stalked the old dog, watching the new arrivals with a certain dignified interest. There was nothing strange in the fact that when Alice Thayor saw Big Shanty Camp she made no ...
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Excerpt: ...Mr. Holcomb for all you see; I really had nothing to do with it." His wife did not reply. Only Margaret's eyes met his own-a pair of brown eyes that seemed to be half sunshine and half tears. As they drew up to the wide veranda of the camp, the trapper and the Clown came slowly across the compound to meet them; at the heels of the trapper stalked the old dog, watching the new arrivals with a certain dignified interest. There was nothing strange in the fact that when Alice Thayor saw Big Shanty Camp she made no comment. It was a bitter disappointment to Thayor, yet he knew in his heart that he could not have expected her to do otherwise. Having reached her exile she had been careful to conceal any outward expression of her approval or dislike. Had the camp at that moment been filled with a jolly house-party, including Dr. Sperry, she could have been content to romp in a fashionable way within it for a week-even a fortnight. It was the thought that it was her home-a home which she had tried to evade and had been brought to bodily in the end-that rankled in her heart. She retired early, but could not sleep. She lay in bed for an hour or more, turning over in her mind the situation. The realization of her defeat stirred within her the old dominant spirit. She realized that her imprisonment had begun. After half an hour more of restless thinking she crept out of bed, tucked her feet into a pair of slippers, drew a silk wrapper about her and crossed to the open window. Leaning with her elbows upon its sill she stood for a long time gazing out over the wilderness. The night was mild and hushed. It was almost certain that with dawn would come a downpour of rain; the tree-toads already heralded the good news. The dry hemlocks whispered it. Bathed in a gauze of moonlight the forest rolled away-silent-mighty in its expanse-promising nothing. Big Shanty Brook gleamed defiantly past in a riot of rapids and whirlpools. Flashing in the crisp sunlight, ...
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