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Katherine and Allan did not wander far. They were content to sit on the rocks and look appreciatively at the long line of hills stretched out before them, while they talked idly for a while, and then with deepening seriousness as the mountains cast their spell upon them. They spoke of the life they had left, and their present position, of new friends and old, and then Allan hesitatingly touched on the future.
"Of course, we cannot expect to go on indefinitely, Kath. We plunged into this rather rashly for Gerald's sake, and from that point of view the experiment has more than justified itself. The boy is looking better than I have ever seen him, and he did not turn a hair after that climb. I was watching him."