The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-06-21
CHAPTER xx.-continued.

Two Gays later. Daylight stood walt.
Ing outside the little Glen Ellen hotel.
The ceremony was over. and he had
left Dede 20 go inside and change
Into her riding.habit ';hile he brought
the horses. He held them now, Bob
and Nab. and In the shadow OF the
watering.trough Wolf lay and looked
on. Already two days OF ardent Cali
fornia sun and touched with new fires
the ancient bronze in Daylights face.
But warmer still was the glow that
came into his cheeks and burned in
bis eyes as he saw Dede coming out
the door. riding-whip In hand, clad in
the familiar corduroy skirt and leg
gings OF the old Piedmont days. There
was warmth and glow In her own face
as she answered his gaze and glanced
on past him to the horses. Then she
saw Nab. But her gaze leaped back
10 the man.
"Oh. Elam!" she breathed.
Many persons. themselves city.bred.
and city reared. have ned TO the
sol! and succeeded In winning great
happiness In such cases they
have succeeded only by going
through a process OF savage d.sil.
lusionment But With Dede and Day
light It was different. They had both
been born on the soil, and they knew
its naked simplic,ues and rawer ways.
They ere like two persons. after Far
wandering. who had merely come
home again. There was less OF the
unexpected in their dealings with IA.
ture. while theirs was all the delight
OF "Reminiscences What might appear
sordid and squalid to the fastic iously
reared, was TO thcm eminently whole
some and natural. The commerce o!
nature was TO them no unknown and
untried trade. They made fewer mis-
takes. They already knew. and 1t was
a Joy 10 remember what they had for.
gotten.
And another thing they learned was
that II was easier for one who has
gorged at the fesh-pots to content
himself with the meagreness OF a
crust. than for one who has known
only the crust. Not that their life
was meagre. II was that they found
keener delights and deeper satisfac-
lions In little things. Daylight. who
had played the game In It's biggest
and most fantastic aspects. found
that here, on the slopes OF Sonoma
Mountain. II was still the same old
game Man had still work to perform.
forces to combat. obstacles to over
come. When he experimental In q
small way at raising a few pigeons
for market. he found no less zest IN
calculating In squads than formerly
when be had calculated In millions.
Achievement vas no less achieve
ment. while the process of It seemed
more rational and received the sane
ton Of his reason.
The domesuc cat that had conc
wild and that preyed on his pigeons.
he found. by the comparative stand
ard. to be OF no less paramount men,
ace than q Charles Klinkuer In the
neld OF finance. trying to raid him for
yeyeral millions. The hawks and
weasels and 'coons were so many
Dowsc:ts, Lotions. and Cuggenham-
mers that struck at him secretly. The
sea OF wild vegetation that tossed It's
sur: against the boundaries OF all his
bearings and that sometimes crept In
and flooded In a single week was no
mean enemy 10 contend with and sub
lite His fatsoiled vegetable garden
n The nook Of hills that failed Of its
''''' waa problem CT eagrossing I'm
"""a. and when he had solved Il by