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OGILVIE'S SILVER
By HAROLD BINDLOSS
WHEN Gardner met Marian Ogilvie at a summer hotel in Ontario, he tactfully hid his surprise. Although he admitted that her letters ought to have prepared him, it was hard to believe that this rather dignified girl, with her air of thought and refinement, was the daughter of the dissipated prospector he had known in the bush. Gardner had spent some years in the wilds between Hudson's Bay and Lake Winnipeg, surveying for mining companies and afterwards for a new railroad. With the exception of Father Lucien and Black, he knew more than anybody else about Ogilvie's death, but sometimes suspected that the others knew more than he. Marian, as he learned by degrees, had won honours at a famous college, and now occupied a post at a big Toronto school.
When they sat under a cedar on the lawn in the hot afternoon, he gave her a photograph he had taken on the Shadow River. In front of them, nickelled sprinklers threw glistening showers across the grass, and the lake ran back, smooth and blue, between wooded islands. Guests in light summer clothes sat talking among the boulders by the waterside, and a girl in a canoe sang to a man who swung the flashing pa
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