It don't seem no ways--but if you seen that with your own eyes, it's possible true.

He's changed." "I've been almost afraid to be happy all these years," she said, "but now I want to sing and cry at the same time.

My heart is so full that it's overflowing, Buck." She brushed the tears away and smiled at them.
"Tell me all about yourselves.Everything.You first, Lee.

You've been longer away." He did not answer for a moment, but sat with his head fallen, watching her thoughtfully.

Women had been the special curse in Lee Haines' life; they had driven him to the crime that sent him West into outlawry long years before; through women, as he himself foreboded, he would come at last to some sordid, petty end; but here sat the only one he had loved without question, without regret, purely and deeply, and as he watched her, more beautiful than she had been in her girlhood, it seemed, as he heard the fitful laughter of Joan outside, the old sorrow came storming up in him, and the sense of loss.
"What have I been doing ?" he murmured at length.