"I'm thankful with all my heart that I came out here.

It's a great place to fight things out.
I'd never have been happy in all my life if I had not come here.

I'm really glad, and you may believe that, because I do--now." "You would forgive--you would cherish no malice against any who acted as the ah--instigators--of your original journey here ?" A sudden question arose in Mrs.Davidson's mind as to whether or not any of Mary Gage's associates and neighbors ever had told her all the story of that original endeavor, whose object was matrimony.

Whereupon she concluded now to let sleeping dogs lie, and not to urge the matter.
Nor was Mary herself the more disposed at the moment to speak of the past.

She only looked out across the valley, as was her custom.
They passed on to some talk of the peace news, and demobilization plans for the men still abroad, for the visitors had brought the latest paper with them.
"Our men!" exclaimed Mary Gage as she read the headlines.