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As Mostyn's train ascended the grade leading up to the haeville, within a , he sat at an openand viewed the scene with delight, drawing into his lungs with a sense of restful content the crisp, rarefied air To the west, andthe vicinity of Drake's farreen, growing radually extended into the bluish haze of distance

"I' to like it," he said, al to himself when alone "I feel as if I shall never want to look inside a bank again This is life, real, sensible life I have, after all, always had a yearning for genuine simplicity It must have come to me fro corn with his ed harness is happier than I ever was down there in that God-forsaken tur to beat other erous, once it clutches you, as morphine I must call a halt That last narrow escape shall be a lesson I aain, and I e's operations to ination

He could have slept through that last tangle ofme out stiff and stark I wonder how all the Drakes are, especially Dolly She ro Saunders says she is beautiful and as wise as Socrates I suppose there are a dozen irl she was astonishingly ht not to have talked to her as I did I have never forgotten her face and voice as I saw and heard theht I see the wonderful eyes and mouth, the like of which I have never run across since I am ashamed to think that I acted as I did, and she only an inexperienced child; but I really couldn't help it I see--and proves that I do lack character--for me to tell her that I would often think of her But the worst of all, really the gerated faith in ht How exquisite was her vow that she'd never kiss any otheras she lived! Lord, I wonder what ails h to be actually--"