The images become more and more confused, and the landscape vanishes by degrees.

Away to the west Charlton saw the groves that grew on the banks of the Big Gun River, and then the smooth prairie knolls beyond, and in the dim horizon the "Big Woods." Despite ail his anxiety, Charlton could not help feeling the influence of such a landscape.

The greatness, the majesty of God, came to him for a moment.

Then the thought of Kate's unhappy love came over him more bitterly from the contrast with the feelings excited by the landscape.

He went rapidly over the possible remedies.