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PROVIDENCE HALT. 
Halt, so full of refreshment and all-happy thoughts, 
that I never allowed myself to detract from it by 
acknowledging that it was other than premeditated. 
There were only two of the party who had looked out 
with me on the bleak ice-field ahead, and them I had 
pledged to silence. 
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