But he was no metaphysician, and he obeyed the sane and wholesome instinct which has ever been man's surest and safest guide through the mysteries and bewilderments of existence.

He took the beautiful woman in his arms and kissed her.
"This is real and right, if anything is," said he.

"If there are ghosts about, you and I, at any rate, are flesh and blood, and where we belong.
As to the irrigation scrape, there must be some way out of it: if not, no matter! You and I love each other, and the world begins from this moment!" "My father must know to-morrow," said Miriam.
"No doubt we shall all know more to-morrow than we do to-day," returned her lover, not knowing how abundantly his prophecy would be fulfilled: he was over-flowing with the fearless and enormous joy of a young man who has attained at one bound the summit of his desire.

"There! they are calling for me.

Good-by, my darling.