Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-05-16
CHAPTER xX.-continued.

Two days later. Daylight stood walt
ing outside the little Glen Ellen hotel
The ceremony was over. and he had
left Dede TO 20 inside and change
into her riding habit '7hile he brought
the horses He held them now. Bob
and Nab and in the shadow Of the
watering trough Wolf lay and locked
on Already two days Of ardent Cali
fornia sun and touched with new fires
the ancient bronze IN Daylights face.
But warmer stii was the glow that
came into his checks and burned in
his eyes as he saw pede 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 leared back
to the man
"Oh. Elam," she breaihcd
Many persons. themselves city-brcd.
and city reared. have fed to the
soil and succeeded in winning great
happiness In such cases they
have succeeded only by going
through n process OF savage disil-
lusionment Rut with Dede and Day
light II was different They had both
been born on the soil. and they knew
its naked simplicties 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 ma
tnre. while theirs was all the delight
of "reminiscences What might appear
sordid and squalid to the fastidiously
reared. was TO them eminently whole
some and natural The commerce Of
nature was to them no unknown and
untricd trade They made fewer mis-
takes. They already knew. and It was
JOY to remember what they had tor
gotten.
And another thing they learned was
that Il was easier for one who has
corgcd nj the nesh-pots TO content
himself with the meagreness of
crust. than for one who has known
only the crust Not that their life
was meagre. II was that they found
kecner delights and deeper satisfac
iions In little things. Daylight. who
had played the game in its biggest
and most fantastic aspects, founC
that here. on the slopes of Sonoms
Mountain. II was still the same ole
game. Man had still work to perform
forces to combat. obstacles to over
: come. When he experimental in 1
small way at raising few pigeons
for market. he found no less zest II
. calculating In squads than formerl,
when he had calculated in millions
. Achievement was no less achieve
ment. while the process Of II seeme'
, moro rational and received the sane
: ton of his reason.
The domestic cat that had gon
! wild and that preyed on his pigeons
r he found. by the comparative stand
ard. 10 be of no less paramount mer
{ nee than Charles Klinkner in tn
7 field of finance. trying 10 raid him 70
' several millions. The hawks an
' weasels and 'coons were so man
Dowsetts. Lotions. and Guggenhan
q mers that struck at him secretly. TIL
\ sen of wild vegetation that tossed II
0 surf against the boundaries of all hi
Glen ~,ngs and that sometimes crept 1
|. and flooded in single week was n
0 mean enemy TO contend with and sui
due His fat-soiled vegetable-garde
' in the nook OF hills that failed OF II
: best was n problem OF engrossing In
eortance. and when he had solved II b