Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-19
CHAPTER xx.--Continued.

Two days later. Daylight stood wait
Eng outside the little Glen Ellen hotel.
The ceremony was over, and he had
left Dede to 60 inside and change
fnto her riding habit while he brought
ehe horses. He held them now. Bob
and Nab, and In the shadow of the
watcring.trough Wolf lay and looked
on. Already two days OF ardent Call
fognia sun and touched with @ fires
the ancient bronze In Daylight's face.
Rut warmer still was the glow that
came into his cheeks and burned In
his eyes as he saw Dede coming out
che door, riding whip In hand, clad in
che familiar corduroy skirt and leg
Eiugs OF the old Piedmont days. There
@as warmth and glow In her own face
as she answered his gaze and glanced
oq past him to the horses. Then she
n Nab. But her gaze leaped back
In the man.
"Oh. Elam!" she breathed.
.
Many persons, themselves city bred,
and city reared. have fed ID the
Eo.l and succeeded in winning great
happiness. In such cases they
have succeeded only by going
through n process OF savage disll'
iasionment, Rut with Dede and Day
tight Il was different. They had both
becH born on the soil, and they knew
Ns naked simplicities and rawer ways.
They vere like two persons, after far
wandering, who had merely come
home again. There was less Of the
unexpected In their dealings with ma
inre while theirs was all the delight
NJ "Reminiscences. What might appear
tsrdid and sqralid to the f~astidiously
reared. was to them emlnently whole
some and natural. The commerce OF
aature was to them no unknown and
Nutried trade. They made fewer mis-.
takes. They already knew. and II was
y joy 70 remember what they had for.
gotten.
And another thing they learned was
fhat 81 was easier for one who has
gcrgcd at the flesh.pots to content
himself with the meagreness of n
crust, than for one who has known
only the crust. Not that their life
eas meagrc. II was that they found
keener delights and deeper satisfac.
flons in little things, Daylight, who
bad played the gam In its biggest
and most fantastic aspects. found
that here. on the slopes Of Sonoma
Mountain, II was still the same old
GSSe. Man had still work to perform,
forces to combat, obstacles to over
come. When he experimental In a
swall way at raising a few pigeons
calculating In squads than formerly
when he had calculated In millions.
Achievement was no less achieve.
ment. while the process OF II seemed
moro rational and received the sane.
tioR of his reason.
The domestic cat that Fad gone
Wild and that preyed on his pigeons,
ne found. by the comparative stand
ard, to be OF no less paramount men.
ace than a Charles klinkner In the
field of finance. trying TO raid him for
several millions. The hawks and
weasels and 'coons were so many
Dowsetts, Lotions, and Guggenham.
uers that struck at him secretly. The
sea Of wild vegetation that tossed its
surf against the boundaries of all his
.rscarings and that sometimes crept IN
,Hrud flooded in a single week was no
mead enemy to contend with and sub.
due. His fat-soiled vegctable.garde
IN the nook OF hills that failed of its
best was q problem OF engrossing I'm.
vaoI,anea. INC when he had solved 1t by