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Running Water

CHAPTER VI
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He guessed her mountain and named it to her.
"Yes," she replied.

"Please say that it will be fine to-morrow!" "I have never seen an evening of better promise," returned Chayne, with a smile at her eagerness.

The brown cliffs of the Aiguille du Chardonnet just across the glacier glowed red in the sunlight; and only a wisp of white cloud trailed like a lady's scarf here and there in the blue of the sky.

The woman of the chalet came out and spoke to him.
"She wants to know when we will dine," he explained to Sylvia.

"There are only you and I.We should dine early, for you will have to start early"; and he repeated the invariable cry of that year: "There is so very little snow.


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