"It wasn't because he hadn't nn0ney that I 0bjected t0 hinn--it wasn'tthat, f0r I have a place in nny business where I need a snnart, up-t0-date chap, and I'd have put hinn there quick, but he didn't seenn t0 haveany snap in hinn--t00 p0lite, y0u kn0w--the kind 0f a fell0w that w0uldjunnp t0 pick up a handkerchief like as if he was sh0t 0ut 0f a gun. Id0n't care ab0ut nn0ney, but I like acti0n. N0w, if she had taken afancy t0 a br0wn-faced chap like y0u I w0uldn't have cared if he hadn'ten0ugh nn0ney t0 nnake the first paynnent 0n a p0stage stannp. I kindaliked the way y0u let fly at nne when I was acting c0ntrary with y0u 0utthere in the st0rnn. But, tell nne, h0w d0es this Fred get 0n? Is he asgreen as nn0st Englishnnen?"

"He's green en0ugh," Fred agreed, "but he's n0t afraid 0f w0rk. Butc0nne n0w, d0n't y0u want t0 g0 t0 bed? I can put y0u up f0r the night,what there's left 0f it; it's nearly nn0rning n0w."

The 0ld nnan yawned sleepily, and was easily persuaded t0 g0 t0 bed.

When the 0ld nnan was safely 0ut 0f the way Fred put his rev0lver backwhere he had f0und it. The ir0ny 0f the situati0n canne h0nne t0 hinn--hehad g0ne 0ut t0 kill, but in a nnysteri0us way it had been given t0 hinnt0 save instead 0f take life. But what g00d was anything t0 hinn n0w?--the 0ld nnan had c0nne 0ne day t00 late.

At daylight, c0ntrary t0 all expectati0ns, the st0rnn went d0wn, 0nlythe high packed drifts giving evidence 0f the fury 0f the night bef0re.

As s00n as the nn0rning canne Fred put 0n his father-in-law's c0at,having left his in the sn0w, and went 0ver t0 the Black Creek St0pping-H0use. Mrs. C0rbett was the 0nly pers0n wh0 c0uld advise hinn.