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The train for the valley, when on time, leaves Sicamous, on the main line of the C.P.R., at about ten, good morning, but sometimes she waits for the delayed eastern train. This happens very frequently on Sundays for who or what was ever on time on a Sunday? Sunday is the lazy man's day the lazy day of the world the day on which we creep along out of tune with things.
But, if that station chances to be Sicamous, and it is Sunday and it must be raining heavily, for when it is raining there are no mosquitoes you will not regret the delay, and you will be very much interested if you have an eye for the unique, or if you have the slightest inclination to be eccentric you will be reminded that There are friends we never meet; There is love we never know.
From many signs, she understood how deeply the humiliation of the scene at Sicamous had entered into a proud man's blood. Others might forget; he remembered. Moreover, that sense of responsibility partial responsibility at least for his father's guilt and degradation, of which he had spoken to her at Glacier, had, she perceived, gone deep with him.
As though the mortification of defeat was not enough, a huge joke was prepared for them by the reception committee of the local curling club, and lemons have been at a premium in Ashcroft ever since. Of Sicamous
Anderson?" The question escaped Elizabeth involuntarily. She had not meant to put it. But it was curious that he should have left them in the lurch at this particular moment. "Take your seats!" cried the station-master, making his way through the crowded platform. "This train goes as far as Sicamous Junction only.
There was a call for him. The train was already moving. He jumped into it, and was gone. The station and hotel at Sicamous Junction, overlooking the lovely Mara lake, were full of people busy officials of different kinds, or excited on-lookers when Anderson reached them.
A trip to the Okanagan is like one sweet dream to the inhabitants of the dry belt a dream that is broken only once by a dreadful nightmare the mosquito conquest at Sicamous; but you forgive and forget this the moment after you awake. The mosquitoes at Sicamous are as great a menace to that town as the Germans are to Europe.
The Okanagan Valley, in the Province of British Columbia, is bounded on the north by the mosquitoes at Sicamous, and on the south by the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, which is the United States; and to one who is accustomed to the sand and the sage, the general aspect throughout gives a most pleasing rest to the eye.
She slowly returned, and meanwhile Anderson had disappeared. She found an excited crowd of travellers and a babel of noise. Delaine hurried to her. It appeared that an extraordinary thing had happened. The train immediately in front of them, carrying mail and express cars but no passengers, had been "held up" by a gang of train-robbers, at a spot between Sicamous junction and Kamloops.
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