That evening when Mrs. Hill and Violet -- the latter very silent and regal -- were sitting on the verandah , a horseman came galloping up the Rainy River trail . Mrs. Hill excused herself and went in . Five minutes later John Spencer , covered with the alkali dust of his twenty miles ' ride , dismounted at Violet 's side . * * * * * The M.P.s gave a concert at the barracks that night and Mrs. Hill and her Major went to it , as well as everyone else of any importance in town except Violet and Spencer . They sat on Major Hill 's verandah and watched the moon rising over the bluffs and making milk-white reflections in the prairie lakes . `` It seems a year of misery since last night , '' sighed Violet happily . `` You could n't have been quite as miserable as I was , '' said Spencer earnestly . `` You were everything -- absolutely everything to me . Other men have little rills and driblets of affection for sisters and cousins and aunts , but everything in me went out to you . Do you remember you told me the first time we met that love would be a revelation to me ? It has been more . It has been a new gospel . I hardly dared hope you could care for me . Even yet I do n't know why you do . '' `` I love you , '' said Violet gravely , `` because you are you . '' Than which , of course , there could be no better reason . The Waking of Helen Robert Reeves looked somewhat curiously at the girl who was waiting on him at his solitary breakfast . He had not seen her before , arriving at his summer boarding house only the preceding night . It was a shabby farmhouse on the inland shore of a large bay that was noted for its tides , and had wonderful possibilities of light and shade for an impressionist . Reeves was an enthusiastic artist .
It mattered little to him that the boarding accommodations were most primitive , the people uncultured and dull , the place itself utterly isolated , as long as he could revel XXXXX those transcendent sunsets and sunrises , those marvellous moonlights , those wonderful purple shores and sweeps of shimmering blue water .
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