N 



the stream (what we recovered afterwards 

 would not have gone far toward the making 

 of a ten-cent box of matches). Down in 



the pool below, N , his face sombre and 



fateful, held the big canoe in mid-current. 



'Now you know why I was unwilling to 

 run the rapid!' 



'I do not. An accident! Who could have 

 foreseen it?' 



*I forsaw it; did I not try to warn you? 



I told T and A . (He had: hence 



the strange interest they had shown in our 

 conversation.) You, it would not have been 

 wise to tell. All of this came to me last 

 night in a dream. The face of the man in 

 the canoe was turned from me — yours, I 

 guessed. A mist fell, and the end was 

 hidden. Trying to pierce it I awoke, — 

 thinking to myself it was death, no less, 

 that had flung so black a shadow.' 



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