The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-05-17
CHAPTER xx.-con,lnued.

Two days later. Daylight stood wait
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 while he brought
the horses. lie held them now, Rob
and Nab. and In the shadow OF the
watoring.trough Wolf lay and looked
on. Already two days Of ardent Cali
fornia sun and touched with new fires
the ancient bronze In Dnylights face
But warmer still was the glow that
came into his cheeks and burned In
HIS eyes ns he saw Dode coming out
the door. ridlng.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
IA she answered his gaze and glanced
on past him to the horses. Then she
saw Nab But her gaze leapcd back
TO the man.
"oh, Elam'" she brenthed,
Many persons. themselves city bred
and city reared. have fed 10 the
soil and succeeded In winning great
happiness In such cases they
have succeeded only by going
through process Of savage dlsil
lusionment hut with Dede and Day
light II was different. They had both
been born on the soil. and they knew
its naked simpllcities 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
ture. 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
untried trade. They made fewer mis-
takes. They already knew, and II was
a Joy to remember what they had for
gotten,
And another thing they learned was
that II was easier for one who has
gorged at the hesh.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. Il 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 a
small way at raising few pigeons
for market. he found no less zest In
calculating IN squads than formerly
when he had calculated In millions
Achievement was no less achieve
ment, while the process Of II seemed
more rational and received the sane
ton Of his reason,
The domestic cat that had gone
wild and that preyed on his pigeons
he 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 fol-
several millions. The hawks and
weasels and 'cOons were 80 many
powsetts. Lotions, and Guggenham
mers that struck at him secretly, The
sea OF wild vegetation that tossed It's
surf against the boundaries Of all bis
clea 'lngs and that sometimes crept IN
and nooded IN a single week was nc
mean enemy to contend with and sub
due. His fatsoiled yegetablegarder
In the nook OF hills that failed Of IL
best was a problem Of engrosslng i'm
vortance, and when he had solved It BY