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Farnam's mouth dropped a little open as he waited, panic-stricken, for the expected crash. But it did not come. Ardita's face became suddenly radiant, and with a little laugh she went swiftly to young Moreland and looked up at him without a trace of wrath in her gray eyes. "Will you swear," she said quietly "That it was entirely a product of your own brain?"
After this, she re-packed her clothes, and sitting down again tried to remember all that had happened. There was something puzzling about the adventure. To begin with, she could not see why the man had come to her room and what he expected to get. A clever thief would have gone to Farnam's office.
"I don't know He made me promise I would let him come. I think prospecting has a charm for miners " She stopped as she saw Mrs. Farnam's smile, but it was some relief to note that George did not seem to remark her hesitation. "Well," he said, "your statement's, so to speak, the climax! The only person who knows anything about the matter thinks you won't find the vein!
Farnam's step in the passage, they began to talk about something else. A week later, Agatha went to visit George, and then feeling braced by the holiday, resumed her duties in Toronto. Soon afterwards, she sat in her room one evening in a thoughtful mood. The house was on the outskirts of the city and she heard cheerful voices and the jingle of sleigh-bells on the road.
"I will come for a week," Agatha agreed, and George went away to look for Farnam. George went away next morning and a few days afterwards Farnam walked home with his wife and Agatha from a visit to a neighbor's homestead. When they reached the edge of Farnam's orchard they stopped and looked about.
Farnam's pretty, warm room, Agatha wondered what Thirlwell was doing in the frozen North. Farnam had invested some money in the mine, and Agatha knew George had come to talk about the company's business. "Things are not going well with us," he said presently. "Our money's nearly spent and Thirlwell has not been able to get out much ore.
She knew she could trust Thirlwell, but remembering a remark of Mabel Farnam's, she asked herself why he had offered his help. She could find no satisfactory answer and thought it better to leave the puzzle alone. "But you are doubtful," she said. "Confidence is a strong driving force." "In a way, that's true," he agreed.
She heard nothing now, but felt alarmed, and wondered what she ought to do. A call would probably bring an answer that would banish her fears; but suppose it was not Mabel she had heard? There was, however, another way of finding out, and with something of an effort she went upstairs. Mrs. Farnam's room was on the landing, and Agatha turned the handle cautiously.
Agatha, leaning over the side, saw that he was the man who had broken into Farnam's house. The half-breed missed him and he looked up at her as the canoe shot past. He was so close that she could almost touch him, and she saw a look of fear in his staring eyes. Then, without making an effort to reach the canoe, he slipped under Thirlwell's hand and sank.
Farnam's valet and the chef, the only members of the crew on board except the engineer, having shown fight, were now reconsidering, strapped securely to their bunks below.
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