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Fessenden, who had long since proposed to Grace and been listlessly accepted, started as usual for the Hunters' one evening, striking through the woods. The moon illuminated the recesses, in which the snow still lingered, and Fessenden strode along, idealizing even that beautiful forest; for would it not, in another hour, shelter two divinely selected beings? He still trod the upper ether, but even in that rarefied atmosphere he experienced a slight chill as he saw Jeff Hunter hastening towards him through the romantic reaches.
Jeff, who under Fessenden's training had acquired a direct and uncompromising method of speech, wasted no time in coming to the point.