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"By Jove!" Ellery exclai uneasily "When you sniff this air

it makes you want to stand on tiptoe on a hilltop and shout And when

you look at these colors, they are too brilliant to be true"

"Even you, you old conservative slow-poking duffer!" cried Dick "This

is the land to wake you up It calls 'harder--harder!' every-day"

"It's a different kind of beauty froain "I've been trying to analyze it ever since I came West It

wouldn't appeal to the tired or the world-weary Its charm is for the

vigorous and the confident and the hopeful--for the young"

"For us, my boy," Dick said

"At Madeline's," as Dick called it, with that obliviousness of the older

generation shown by the younger, Norris felt as they entered, as he had

felt at Mrs Percival's, that he was in a candid, human, refined home,

with a full appreciation of the finer sides of life They passed through

the drawing-roolass doors to the broad piazza, with every

invitation to laziness, easy chairs, cushions, e jar of roses and another of sweet peas And there was

not too reen that

stretched steeply down to that cool wet line where the lapping waters