do in their sand mosaics, they could easily have indicated
the social classifications of Moonstone, since these con-
formed to certain topographical boundaries, and every
child understood them perfectly.

The main business street ran, of course, through the
center of the town. To the west of this street lived all the
people who were, as Tillie Kronborg said, "in society."
Sylvester Street, the third parallel with Main Street on the
west, was the longest in town, and the best dwellings were
built along it. Far out at the north end, nearly a mile from
the court-house and its cottonwood grove, was Dr. Archie's
house, its big yard and garden surrounded by a white paling
fence. The Methodist Church was in the center of the
town, facing the court-house square. The Kronborgs lived
half a mile south of the church, on the long street that
stretched out like an arm to the depot settlement. This
was the first street west of Main, and was built up only on
one side. The preacher's house faced the backs of the brick
and frame store buildings and a draw full of sunflowers
and scraps of old iron. The sidewalk which ran in front
of the Kronborgs' house was the one continuous sidewalk
to the depot, and all the train men and roundhouse em-
ployees passed the front gate every time they came up-
town. Thea and Mrs. Kronborg had many friends among
the railroad men, who often paused to chat across the fence,
and of one of these we shall have more to say.

In the part of Moonstone that lay east of Main Street,
toward the deep ravine which, farther south, wound by