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It was not a cheering prospect

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McMurdo had obtained a temporary job as bookkeeper for he was a well-educated man

He was no backward suitor

There was about him also that glamour of experience and of mystery which attracts a woman's interest

Swatch Product 13 Color:Red It was not a cheeringIt was the fourth of February in the year 1875. It had been a severe winter, and the snow lay deep in the gorges of the Gilmerton Mountains. The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the evening train which connects the long line of coal mining and iron working settlements was slowly groaning its way up the steep gradients which lead from Stagville on the plain to Vermissa, the central township which lies at the head of Vermissa