You may be the Apostle of Cheerfulness to the entire far West before you are done.

Who knows ?" Although the last words were spoken lightly, Mary felt the seriousness underlying them, and looked up, her face shining, as if some mystery had suddenly been made clear to her.
"Oh, Jack!" she cried.

"You don't know how easy that makes every thing.
I've looked at life at Lone-Rock as something to be endured merely as a stepping stone to better things.

But if you think that this is the beginning of my real tryst, I can answer the call in such a different spirit.

By the winged spur of our ancestors," she cried, gaily waving, the ruffle she was hemming, "I'll be 'Ready, aye ready' for whatever comes." Jack did not go back to the office the first of September.