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By the Golden Gate

CHAPTER I
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The house in which she lived was offered for sale at this juncture, and the original suitor bought it and turned her out into the street.

He had his revenge, which shows that human nature is the same the world over.

Had he offered her the house to live in, however, it would have been a nobler revenge, "overcoming evil with good." It is but a short ride from Denver to Colorado Springs, which is a delightful spot with 21,000 inhabitants, and here is a magnificent hotel a block or two from the railway station called the New Antlers.
The Rev.Dr.H.H.

Messenger, of Summit, Mississippi, an apostolic looking clergyman, with his wife, accompanied us from Denver to Colorado Springs, and also to Manitou, at the foot of Pike's Peak and the mouth of the Ute Pass.

From Manitou we drove to the Garden of the Gods, comprising about five hundred acres, and went through this mysterious region with its fantastic and wonderful formations, which seem to caricature men and beasts and to mimic architectural creations.


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