It was that way when I first saw this place.

I was crossing the country on my way to examine some prospects for the company, and camped at this very spot.

And that evening I planned it all, just as it is to-night.

I put the tent there, and built our fire, and stretched your hammock under the tree, and sat with you in the twilight; but even as I dreamed it I laughed at myself for a fool, for I could not believe that the dream would ever come true.
And then, when I got back to Prescott, there was a letter from a Cleveland friend, telling me that Larry had gone abroad to be away a year or more, and another letter from the company, calling me East again.

And so I stopped at Cleveland and--" He laughed happily.