as she was about to enter the convent yard, her attention was
attracted by the white feet of the horse, and instantly she knew to
whom it belonged. Wrong as she knew it to be, she could not help
raising her head. Their eyes met:

"Or be crush'd in its ruins to die!"

The words came to them both at the same moment. One of the nuns put
out her hand as she saw her falter; but she recovered herself and
entered the yard. The rusty hinges creaked weirdly as the door closed
behind her. A moment later, he heard the metallic click of the lock.

The snow began to fall in great flakes, and the boisterous wind drove
them violently into the faces of the sightseers as they hurried from
the church. None of them saw the horse on the far side of the road;
the snow was blinding.

As he heard their voices die away in the distance, Dr. Chalmers' head
drooped till it rested on the animal's mane. Patiently the beast
whisked away the snow and tried to hide its head from the vicious
wind.

It was growing rapidly dark, but he did not notice it: he was thinking
of the fight he had made for her life, and of the love that had come
to him in the summer days when health came back to her to make amends.

"To prevail in the cause that is dearer than life!"

The mocking refrain seemed to have been shouted into his ears; he
started as though he had been struck, seized the reins, and dashed
into the gathering storm.

* * * * *

A Perilous Encounter.

It is not because I am unduly sensitive of my altered appearance that
I have told so few the story of the ugly scar that disfigures my face,
but on account of the horror that I yet experience when recalling the
terrible incidents that led to my receiving it. How many lives were
saved by that wound I shall never know.

The great Canadian Pacific Railway, which to-day connects the Atlantic
Ocean with the Pacific, was in the year 1882 built only about two
hundred miles west of Winnipeg, leaving a huge gap of several hundred
miles of untouched prairie before one of the world's wonders, the
famed Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, was reached.

Such was the rapidity with which the rails were laid and telegraph
offices erected, that when winter set in, fifty telegraph operators
were needed to take charge of the empty stations.

The management found it hard to induce men to go out and bury
themselves for the winter in the vast prairie, which was only