The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-04-25
CHAPTER xx.-contlnued.

Two days later. Daylight stood wait
Bng outside the little Glen Ellen hotel.
The ceremony was over. and he had
Beft Dede to go inside and change
INTO her riding-habit while he brought
abe horses. He held them now, Bob
and NAB, and In the shadow OF the
wntering-trough Wolf lay and looked
On. Already two days of ardent Call
sornia sun and touched with new fires
the ancient bronze In Daylight's face.
But warmer still was the glow that
came into his cheeks and burned in
his 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
"a she answered his gaze and glanced
on past him to the horses. Then she
saw Nab. But her gaze leaped back
60 the man.
-Oh. Elam!" she breathed.
Many persons. themselves city.bred.
and city reared, have fed to the
soil and succeeded In winning great
happiness. In such cases they
have succeeded only by going
through a process of savage disil.
Busionment. But with Dede and Day
night 1t 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
lwmnAnrinn nyhn bod nnaralu o0nnn
home again. There was less of the
unexpected In their dealings with ma
lure. 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 OF
nature was to them no unknown and
nntried trade. They made fewer mis-
takes. They already knew. and 1t was
. Joy to remember what they had for
gotten.
And another thing they learned was
that ii was easier for one who has
Sorged at the flesh-pots to content
himself with the meagrcness OF a
crust. than for one who has known
only the crust. Not that their life
was meagre. 1t was that they found
keener delights and deeper satisfac-
mons In little things. Daylight, who
Had played the game In its biggest
mnd most fantastic aspects. found
ahat here. on the slopes of Sonoma
Mountain. 1t was still the same old
game. Man had still work to perform,
8crces to combat, obstacles to over
come. When he experimental in a
small way at raising a few pigeons
5pr 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
zsore rational and received the sane
sSon Of his reason.
The domestic cat that had gone
Wild and that preyed on his pigeons.
- found. by the comparative stand
sBd, to be Of no less paramount mea-
sce than q Charles Klinkner In the
Beld Of finance. trying to raid him for
several millions. The hawks and
xessels and 'coons were 90 many
1nuwsetts, Lotions, and Guggenham-
npers that struck at him secretly. The
ga Of wild vegetation that tossed Its
aurf against the boundaries OF all his
<9sarings and that sometimes crept In
I'D hooded in a single week was no
lean enemy to contend with and sub
~. HE ~fatsoiled vegetabie-garden
- the nook Of hills that failed OF its
M va = problem OF ~engrossing i'm
Duvtancs. And when he had solved Il by