'
'_Your_ property!' exclaimed John, in amazement.
'Certainly. You didn't know that, did you?' she replied, looking for a
moment at him, and then away from him. 'I call myself the Mistress of
the Mine.'
'Then you are--you are----'
'Mr. Smith,' said the girl coming to his rescue.
There was a moment's pause, and the next words John said were not at all
what she expected.
'Take your hand out of the snow,' he commanded, 'and put it in under the
buffalo robe; you have no idea how cold it is here, and your hand will be
frozen in a moment.'
'Really,' said the girl, 'an employee must not talk to his employer in
that tone! My hand is my own, is it not?'
'I hope it is,' said John, 'because I want to ask you for it.'
For answer Miss Edith Longworth placed her hand in his.
Actions speak louder than words. The sleigh was far in advance, and there
were no witnesses on the white topped hills.
'Were you astonished?' she said, 'when I told you that I owned the mine?'
'Very much so indeed. Were _you_ astonished when I told you I wished to
own the owner of the mine?'
'Not in the slightest.'
'Why?'
'Because your treacherous friend Wentworth sent me your letter applying
for a situation. You got the situation, didn't you, John?'
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