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 strange girl with the deep eyes and lovely voice. It was not in accordance with his plan of life to fall in love for the next ten years.

He followed Miss Carleton's advice in avoiding Mount Desert, and chose instead a month's camping out in Northern Maine. The sonnet he wrote to her that night after the sail Gladys never saw till years after, when she stumbled upon it in a book of his verses.