The Desert and The Sown

nly one, he declared, but that had proved a pitchy one, and the chimney bellowed with flame. From end to end the room was ali

was hemmed in on every side; deserted by his daughter, mocked by the work of his own hands, an

the one woman on earth it most behooved him to be civil to,-the future mother-in-law of his only chi

in any of the small scattering pursuits which distract the female mind. When she read she read-she never "looked at books." When she sewed she sewed-presumably, but n

ow of that impenitent stick, frowned at it like an inquisitor. Presently Mrs. Bogardus

you always smo

ged also to the generation that can carry a sentence through to the finish in handsome style, and he did it with a suave Virginian accent as easy as his

asked, with a barely perceptible sniff the m

s-women, I should say-Moya won't let me say ladies-you

d the very handsome one before him.

know, I don't detect myself, but there's

would smoke now. If you don't, I shall have

proceeding to make himself conditionally happy, "Moya will never forgive me! We spoil each other shamefully when we're alone, but of course we try

Christine was a little thing, used to say: 'That child is the stuff that tyrants are made

al Spoiler! He'll ruin my striker, Jephson. I shall have to send the fellow back to

observed shrewdly. "He says that only invalids, old people, a

und him blacking

gardus

contract with that other fellow for Paul to do his wo

n pay the price of those artificial relations betwe

t's a relation that began when the world w

I have a great sympathy with tyrants myself

feet,"-the colonel drew them in a little as the lady's eyes involuntarily took the direction of his allusion,-"I take the best care I can of them; but I propose to keep my head, such as it is, on

carelessly. "Some of our Heads have come from the c

islators. I don't wish to plume myself, but, upon my word, the two services are about all we have left to show what selection and

in the civil

But, the flag over all!-at the cost of everything I held dear on earth." After

e more like other young men-exercise, for instance. It's a pity for young men not to love activity and leadership. Besides,

urprising and, as he thought, not altogether complimentary. It was as if she felt herself so far remo

tually," said the colone

his age amusement ought to be purpose enough. He ought to take his pleasures seriously-this hu

les, after you've gone fifty north from Bonanza, is practically virgin forest. Wonderful flora and fauna! It's

arism! He would as soon festoon his walls with scalps, as decorate them with the he

n men and animals. He is your son, madam-and he's going to be min

Mrs. Bogardus remarked dispassionate

the sake of getting a little sense into him, of an ev

's too late in the seas

as it was; yet the colonel felt at once that this simple

definitely. "If it is, he won't go out wit

rty on Monday, perhaps, Paul is to meet the Bowens at Challis, where they buy their outfit. I do believ

o you

is part of the public domain. They have been threatening, if Pa

The more the merrier! We will quar

ntimate friends of Paul's. Mrs. Bowen is-a very great friend. He is her right-

go hunting w

and-when young men are living on their fathers, it is convenient sometimes to have a thi

to come, or make it plain

not cover the whole valley. Banks Bowen talks of a mine he wants to look at-I don't think it will make muc

is full of her frocks and fripperies. She is trying to run a brace of sewing women; and all those boxes are coming from the East to be 'inspected, and condemned' mostly. The

an do much better when she is in town herself. It doesn't matter, for the few weeks they will be away, what she

rs. Bogardus speak with so much animation. He wondered

ya will let you. Most girls think they

said decidedly. "They always keep a certain sty

d after the exertion. She passed out, thanking him with a smile as he opened the door. In the hall she

know which way the children went?" By the "children," as the colonel had not

trifle hard in the grain. Eyes that tell you nothing. Mouth set like a stone. Never rambles in her talk. Never speculate