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Chapter 36 "Give up the trail of Pierre." And there, brought face to face with the mortal question, even her fear burned low in her, and once more she remembered the youth who would not leave her in the snow, but held her in his arms with the strange cross above them. She said simply: "I still love him." A faint glimmer came to her through the dark and she could see deeper into the shrubbery, for now the moon stood up on the top of the great peak above them and flung a faint light into the hollow. That glimmer she saw, but no face of a man. And then the silence held; every second of it was more than a hundred spoken words. Then the calm voice said: "I cannot give him up." "For the sake of God!" "God and I have been strangers for a good many years." "For my sake." "But you