She did more; she permitted dinner to be an hour late, rather than disturb those two in the pantry.
* * * * * The uphill climb was no climb at all, after that.

For when a man has found the one woman in the world, and with her that elusive thing we call happiness, even the demon must perforce sheathe his claws and retire, discomfited, to the pit whence he came.
There was a period of impatient waiting, because Josephine and Mrs.Kate both stoutly maintained that the "real wedding" could not take place until Chester came back.

After that, there was a Mrs.foreman at the Double Cross until spring.

And after that, there was a new ranch and a new house and a new home where happiness came and dwelt unhindered.
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_THE HARVESTER_ Illustrated by W.L.Jacobs "The Harvester," David Langston, is a man of the woods and fields, who draws his living from the prodigal hand of Mother Nature herself.