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136 RAINBOW VALLEYlife. When we imagine we have finished our storyfate has a trickof turning the page and showing us.yet another chapter.These two people each thoughttheir hearts belonged irrevocably to the past; but theyboth found their walk up that hill very pleasant. Rosemarythought the Glen minister was by no means asHeshy and tongue-tied as he had been represented.seemed to find no difficulty in talking easily and freely.Glen housewives would have been amazed had theyheard him. But then so many Glen housewives talkedonly of gossip and the price of eggs, and John Meredithwas not interested in either. He talked to Rosemaryof books and music and wide-world doings andsomething of his own history, and found that shecould understand and respond. Rosemary,itappeared,possessed a book which Mr. Meredith hadnot read and wished to read. She offered to lend itto him and when they reached the old homestead onthe hill he went in to getit.The house itself was an old-fashioned gray one,hung with vines, through which the light in the sittingroom winked in friendly fashion. It looked down the.Glen, over the harbour, silvered in the moonlight, tothe sand-dunes and the moaning ocean. They walkedin through a garden that always seemed to smell ofroses, even when no roses were in bloom. There wasa sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters,on either sideof the broad walk, and a lacery of firtrees on the hill'sedge beyond the house.