Chapter XXII

A JUNE WOMAN

"I FEEL as if I was in the pictures!"
"Oh! I feel as if I was in the pictures."
It was the wild thought in each girl's
breast, as minutes went on.

The loneliness of the mountain pass,
nearly three thousand feet above sea-level,
the rigors of the wind sweeping up
it, chill now, June not yet being ten days
old, the frowning crags, the remote heads
of other tall mountains peeping over their
shoulders, the two green dots of girls on
either side of a broken man, they took
it all in', to the full, most dramatically
too--and felt as if they were in the pictures.

A surpassing moving picture reel, more
telling than any they had ever witnessed,
in which--oh, queer double-headed feel-
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