THAT WHICH HE WOULD Poor medicine as it is, work was ever the best salve known for a hurting heart.

Franklin betook him to his daily work, and he saw success attend his labours.

Already against the frank barbarity of the cattle days there began to push the hand of the "law-and-order" element, steadily increasing in power.

Although all the primitive savage in him answered to the summons of those white-hot days to every virile, daring nature, Franklin none the less felt growing in his heart the stubbornness of the man of property, the landholding man, the man who even unconsciously plans a home, resolved to cling to that which he has taken of the earth's surface for his own.

Heredity, civilization, that which we call common sense, won the victory.