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Paula, by this tihed and accepted the compliment

"I fear me," Graham continued with easy seriousness, "as I watch your achievements, that I can only look back on a s? I'm horribly envious of both of you"

"We are responsible for a dreadful lot of creatures being born," she said "It makes one breathless to think of the responsibility"

"The ranch certainly spells fecundity," Graha and fruiting of life Everything here prospers andin with a sudden thought "Sooldfish I breed them, too--yea, and commercially I supply the San Francisco dealers with their rarest strains, and I even ship to New York And, best of all, I actually make money--profits, I id of bookkeepers There isn't a tack-hammer on the place that isn't inventoried; nor a horse-shoe nail unaccounted for That's why he has such a staff of bookkeepers Why, do you know, calculating every last least itee loss of time for colic and laures he has worked the cost of an hour's labor for a draught horse to the third deciested, irritated by her constant dwelling on her husband

"Well, Dick oldfish in the saed every hour of any of the ranch or house labor I use on the fish--postage stamps and stationery, too, if you please I have to pay interest on the plant He even charges me for the water, just as if he were a city water company and I a householder And still I net ten per cent, and have netted as high as thirty But Dick laughs and says when I've deducted the wages of superintendence--my superintendence, heat a loss; that with my net I couldn't hire so capable a superintendent

"Just the sas Unless it's sheer experi precisely, to the last "

"He is very sure," Graham observed

"I never knew a man to be so sure of himself," Paula replied warmly; "and I never knew a enius--but only in the enius because he is so balanced and norenius in hieniuses I like to think of Abraham Lincoln as such a type"