the on the fellows who lose how many have you met along the road who could get a job driving four horses for the livery stable and some of them were as as you when they were young and on top of it all you ve got no shout coming it s a mighty big come down from gambling for a continent to gambling for a job just the same oh you ve got it in your blood hall cut him off and why everybody in this country has been gambling for generations it was in the air when you were bom you ve breathed it all your life you who ve never had a white in the game still go on shouting for it and for it but what are all of us to do saxon inquired call in the and stop the game hall recommended it s crooked saxon frowned do what your forefathers didn t do he gk ahead and perfect she remembered a remark of a friend of mine says that is an enchantment it is � in a gambling joint there are a million boys in our public schools right now the of canal boy to president and millions of worthy citizens who sleep sound every night in the belief that they have a say in running the country you talk like my brother tom saxon said failing to comprehend if we all get into politics and work hard for something better maybe well get it after a thousand years or so but i want it now she clenched her hands passionately i can t wait i want it now but that is just what i ve been telling you my dear girl that s what s the trouble with all the they can t wait they want it now � a of and a by ic the valley op the moon fling at the game well they won t get it now that s what s the matter with you chasing a valley in the moon that s what s the matter with aching right now for a chance to win ten cents from me at and wind under his breath you d make a good soap commented and i d be a soap if i didn t have the spending of my father s ill gotten gains it s none of my let them rot they d be just as bad if they were on top it s all a mess � hungry swine and filthy here mrs hall interfered now mark you stop that or you be getting the he tossed his of hair and laughed with an effort no i won t he denied i m going to get ten cents from at a game of he won t have a look in saxon and flourished in the genial human atmosphere of they appreciated in their own estimation saxon felt that she was something more than a girl and the wife of a union she was no longer pent in the narrow working class of a pine street neighborhood life had grown they better physically materially and and all this was reflected in their features in the carriage of their bodies she knew had never been nor in more splendid bodily condition he swore he had a and that she was his second wife � twice as beautiful as the first one he had married and he confessed to him that mrs hall and several others of the had admired her form one day when in for a cold dip in river they had got around her and called her and made her and assume different understood the reference for a marble one with broken arms stood in hall s living room and by ic the valley of the moon the poet had told him the world it as the perfection of female form i always said you had beat a mile said and so proud was his air of possession that saxon blushed and trembled and hid her hot face against his breast the men in the crowd were open in their admiration of saxon in an above board manner but she made no mistake she did not lose her head there was no chance of that for her love for beat more strongly than ever nor was she guilty of over she knew him for what he was and loved him with open eyes he had no book learning no art like the other men his grammar was bad she knew that just as she knew that he would never mend it yet she would not have exchanged him for any of the others not even for mark hall with the heart whom she loved much in the same way that she loved his wife for that matter she found in a certain health and a certain essential integrity which she more highly than all book learning and bank accounts it was by virtue of this health and and integrity that he had beaten hall in argument the night the poet was on the had beaten him not with the weapons of learning but just by being himself and by speaking out the truth that was in him best of ally he had not even known that he had beaten and had taken the applause as good natured but saxon knew though she could scarcely tell why and she would always remember how the wife of had whispered to her afterward with shining eyes oh saxon you must be so happy were saxon driven to speech to attempt to express what meant to her she would have done it with the simple word man always he was that to her always in glowing splendor that was his � man sometimes by herself she would all but weep with joy at recollection of his way of informing some by ic the valley of the moon lent male that he was 