The Avalanche

She had "walked off" with the most desirable man in town, but they were good gamblers. When they lost they paid. She h

anding mind as companionable as he had hoped; and the girlish dignity she never lost, for all her naiveté and vivacity, g

ight reveal disconcerting shallows, but these little voids were but the divine hiatuses of youth. He sometimes wondered just how strong her character was. There were times

sions of what life might have been had Flora Thornton entered life twenty years later. He had been quite sincere in telling her that the young stranger reminded him of the most powerful personality he had met in California, and he believed that within

ppy marriages were rare and divorces many. Fine weather nearly all the year round played the deuce with domesticity,

ndering whether he knew his wife at all. How could a man know a woman who did not yet know h

ething far less picturesque, something con