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THE BONANZA KING The cold of foot-hill California in the month of January held the night. The occupants of the surrey were too cramped and stiffened by it, and too uncomfortably enwrapped against it,…
A YOUNG MAN MARRIED That same evening, at the hour when Bill Cannon and his daughter were setting out from Rocky Bar, Dominick Ryan was walking up Van Ness Avenue toward his mother’s house. Dominick …
THE DAUGHTER OF HETH He walked for nearly an hour, along quiet, lamp-lit streets where large houses fronted on gardens that exhaled moist earth scents and the breaths of sweet, unseen blossoms, up hi…
OUT OF NIGHT AND STORM When Rose Cannon woke on the morning after her arrival at Antelope, a memory of the snowflakes of the evening before made her jump out of bed and patter barefooted to the windo…
NURSE AND PATIENT When Dominick returned to consciousness he lay for a space looking directly in front of him, then moved his head and let his eyes sweep the walls. They were alien walls of white pla…
IN WHICH BERNY WRITES A LETTER The morning after the quarrel Bernice woke late. She had not fallen asleep till the night was well spent, the heated seething of her rage keeping the peace of repose fa…
SNOW-BOUND While the world went about its affairs, attended to its business, read its papers, sent its telegrams and wrote its letters, the little group at Antelope was as completely cut off from it …
THE UNKNOWN EROS The ten days that followed were among the most important of Dominick Ryan’s life. Looking back at them he wondered that he had been so blind to the transformation of his being which …
THE SONS OF THEIR FATHERS It was at the end of the Bonanza times, that period of startling upheavals and downfalls, when miners had suddenly become millionaires, and rich men found themselves paupers…
DOMINICK COMES HOME Three days after the return of the Cannons, Dominick Ryan also came home. He had answered Berny’s letter the day the Cannons left, a few hours after that interview with the Bonanz…
