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the divide the whole town came rushing up, and 

 at the head Bill and a fair, brown-eyed woman 

 who was not dead, who, by a miracle, had lived. 

 As she reached Mrs. Old Joe and the child she 

 had never seen, Alec and Lou Doyle and the rest 

 turned aw r ay and looked at the scenery then 

 laughed and shouted through many tears; and 

 then Clancy, Old Joe, and a protesting Buddha 

 went up upon the shoulders of the citizens of 

 Sierra as they hit the trail and wound down 

 into the valley of deepest snow. 



