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* * * * * An hour later Trooper Stormont was at the Place of Pines . There was nothing there except an empty trap and the ashes of the dying fire beyond . EPISODE TWELVE HER HIGHNESS INTERVENES Toward noon the wind changed , and about one o'clock it began to snow . Eve , exhausted , lay on the sofa in her bedroom . Her step-father lay on a table in the dance hall below , covered by a sheet from his own bed . And beside him sat Trooper Stormont , waiting .