[The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood]@TWC D-Link bookThe Valley of Silent Men CHAPTER XVI 29/37
You can only harm me.
And if--some day, a long time from now--you should happen to find the Valley of Silent Men--" He waited, his heart pounding like a fist. "I may--be there," she finished, in a voice so low that it was scarcely above a whisper. It seemed to him that she was looking a long way off, and it was not in his direction.
And then she smiled, not at him, but in a half-hopeless little way. "I think I shall be disappointed if you don't find it," she said then, and her eyes were pure as the blue flowers from which they had stolen their color, as she looked at him.
"You know the great Sulphur Country beyond Fort Simpson, westward between the Two Nahannis ?" "Yes.
That is where Kilbane and his patrol were lost.
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