That Girl of Johnson's — page 47: what you’re looking at

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36 : THAT GIRL OF JOHNSON’S. forever? Itis only right that he should suffer It is just. It was a dastardly deed. Only—only don’t come with me any farther. I—had—rather go alone.” He obeyed, but followed at a distance. The road was lonely; there were no houses till she reached the settle- ment below. The sun had set; in the east above the oppo- site mountain, the full moon rode; it cast a mellow light along the road down which the girl was passing. The silence was solemn; the bustle in the town was dying down; the usual quiet reigned in the settlement. A soit haze arose from the valley far beneath, floated and wavered noiselessly up toward the moonlight. Up on the heights the young man stood motionless watching the girl passing from him in the moonlight. The light was full in his face. It was an earnest face and good; one to be trusted; never to prove treacherous. He watched until the girl, dimly discerned down among the shadows, paused a moment on the threshold of the bare little house, and then entered. And to him as he turned away, his thoughts in a tumult, the mysterious mist and the moonlight seemed to have swallowed her up. ,. he a : me hy : Spy GOomiiGc 900 cS (ee)