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CHAPTER XXIII SERGEANT STIMSON CONFIRMS HIS SUSPICIONS
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It was late in the afternoon when Colonel Barrington drove up to Winston's homestead. He had his niece and sister with him, and when he pulled up his team, all three were glad of the little breeze that came down from the blueness of the north and rippled1 the whitened grass. It had blown over leagues of sun-bleached prairie, and the great desolation beyond the pines of the Saskatchewan, but had not wholly lost the faint, wholesome2 chill it brought from the Pole.
There was no cloud in the vault3 of ether, and slanting4 sun-rays beat fiercely down upon the prairie, until the fibrous dust grew fiery5 and the eyes ached from the glare of the vast stretch of silvery gray. The latter was, however, relieved by stronger color in front of the party, for blazing gold on the dazzling stubble, the oat sheaves rolled away in long rows that diminished and melted into each other, until they cut the blue of the sky in a delicate filigree6. Oats had moved up in value in sympathy with wheat, and the good soil had most abundantly redeemed7 its promise that year. Colonel Barrington, however, sighed a little as he looked at them, and remembered that such a harvest might have been his.
"We will get down and walk towards the wheat," he said. "It is a good crop and Lance is to be envied."
"Still," said Miss Barrington, "he deserved it, and those sheaves stand for more than the toil8 that brought them there."
"Of course!" said the Colonel, with a curious little smile. "For rashness, I fancied, when they showed the first blade above the clod, but I am less sure of it now. Well, the wheat is even finer."
A man who came up took charge of the horses, and the party walked in silence towards the wheat. It stretched before them in a vast parallelogram, and while the oats were the pale gold of the austral, there was the
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