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He would take the burden on himself -- would face her father at once , but she hushed him in real alarm and said , that battle she must fight unaided ; it was after all only a little one , she whispered , after the one she had fought with herself . But he knew she glossed over her anxiety , for when he withdrew her eyes looked tears though they shed none . In the morning there were two vacancies at the breakfast table ; neither Gertrude nor her father appeared . When Glover returned to the hotel at five o'clock the first person he saw was Mrs. Whitney . She and Marie , with the doctor and Allen Harrison , had arrived on the first train out of the Springs in four days , and Mrs. Whitney 's greeting of Glover in the office was disconcerting . It scarcely needed Gertrude 's face at dinner , as she tried to brave the storm that had set in , or her reluctant admission when she saw him as she passed up to her room that she and her father had been up nearly the whole of the night before , to complete his depression . Every effort he made during the evening to speak to Gertrude was balked by some untoward circumstance , but about nine o'clock they met on the parlor floor and Glover led her to the elevator , which was being run that night by Solomon Battershawl .