"I am sorry you are going." "So am I, but it is better that I should leave.

As I said, I trust soon to see you again.

Do you know why I hope Fred will decide to return to the East with you and your mother ?" "I suppose because we shall all be safer there;" and then she added, forgetting her sorrow for the moment, "that is if we do not go skating to Wolf Glen." "It is not necessary to remove as far as Maine, but father insists that I am wasting time here, when I ought to be home studying my profession." "And he is right, Monteith." "But," he replied in a low voice, "before I go back I want to make sure that you will do the same.

There, good-by again." He replaced his hat, wheeled and dashed across the prairie without another word.
Jennie stood gazing in the direction taken by him for some time after he had disappeared in the gloom of the night.

Then she turned to speak to her brother, but he had passed within the house.