came a large content. She pointed to the
dancing little white fall. 'I thought some-
thing wonderful was going to happen,' she
whispered, 'for it has been laughing so.'

"I shall not return to New York. I am
going to stay here with my mountain wo-
man, and I think perhaps I shall find out
what life means here sooner than I would
back there with you. I shall learn to see
large things large and small things small.
Judith says to tell you and Miss Grant that
the four voices are calling for you every
day in the valley.

"Yours in fullest friendship,

"LEROY BRAINARD."



Jim Lancy's Waterloo


"WE must get married before time to put
in crops," he wrote. "We must make
a success of the farm the first year, for luck.
Could you manage to be ready to come out
West by the last of February? After March
opens there will be no let-up, and I do not