disappointed in
him. He is worth his chance. But see how low the sun is, Bruce. We, too,
must say good-bye to Missouri now, if we are to make the train. Take
your last look until we come back to it all."

The fragrance trembled about them. The pale wide Di quivered below them.
Far to the west flamed the sunset. Down through the ether dropped great
swaying draperies of orange and purple. Fair into the heart of heaven
unrolled a path of violet and blue and rose.

Young, ancestral, sweet, she stood there beside him, his. Steering
turned his eyes from the dusky-gold radiance of her face and hair to the
land beyond, where his hills billowed toward him with mighty promise,
submerging him again, reclaiming him, as they had done on a lonely day
not one year gone, making a Missourian of him, as it had done on that
day. The girl, the land, he, all the world, seemed banded in a golden
irradiation.

"Oh, Missouri! Missouri!" he cried, with a joyful, trembling, upleaping
of spirit, his arms shut close about his wife, his eyes coming back to
her as to the spirit of this new and wonderful West, "You glorious
State! You sweet, wide land! I adore you!"

THE END.

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