And when pitying fingers brushed the snow from their worn faces, you could scarcely have told from the equal peace that dwelt upon them which was she that had sinned.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Outcasts of Poker Flat classic radio drama series episode.

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- Feathery drifts of snow, shaken from the long pine boughs, flew like white-winged birds and settled about them as they slept.

- The moon through the rifted clouds looked down upon what had been the camp.

- But all human stain, all trace of earthly travail, was hidden beneath the spotless mantle mercifully flung from above.

- They slept all that day and the next.

- Nor did they waken when voices and footsteps broke the silence of the camp.

- And when pitying fingers brushed the snow from their worn faces, you could scarcely have told from the equal peace that dwelt upon them which was she that had sinned.

- Even the law of Poker Flat felt this, and turned away, leaving them still locked in each other's arms.

- But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie knife.

- It bore a message written in pencil with a firm hand.

- Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th of December, 1850.

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