There all life rubbed shoulders, and kings and dog-drivers, old-timers and chechaquos, met on a common level.

And it so happened, probably because saw-mills and house-space were scarce, that the saloons accommodated the gambling tables and the polished dance-house floors.

And here, because he needs must bend to custom, Corliss's adaptation went on rapidly.

And as Carthey, who appreciated him, soliloquized, "The best of it is he likes it damn well, by damn!" But any adjustment must have its painful periods, and while Corliss's general change went on smoothly, in the particular case of Frona it was different.

She had a code of her own, quite unlike that of the community, and perhaps believed woman might do things at which even the saloon-inhabiting males would be shocked.