With their departure for California as Mr.and Mrs.Spencer Tucker, the parental nest in the Blue Grass meadows knew them no more.
They submitted with equal cheerfulness to the privations and excesses of their new conditions.

Within three years the schoolmaster developed into a lawyer and capitalist, the Blue Grass bride supplying a grace and ease to these transitions that were all her own.

She softened the abruptness of sudden wealth, mitigated the austerities of newly acquired power, and made the most glaring incongruity picturesque.

Only one thing seemed to limit their progress in the region of these possibilities.

They were childless.