rms and
reseated himself by the fire. "Now you go to sleep or back you go to
bed."

She snuggled down, her yellow head in his crook'd elbow while he looked
at her cheek, recalling the storm in which she had arrived.

"Little flower girl," he said. "Sweet little kiddie."

His offspring made no reply. Presently he carried her asleep to her
couch, tucked her in, and, coming back, went out on the brown lawn,
where a late November wind rustled in the still clinging brown leaves.
Overhead were the star--Orion's majestic belt and those mystic
constellations that make Dippers, Bears, and that remote cloudy
formation known as the Milky Way.

"Where in all this--in substance," he thought, rubbing his hand through
his hair, "is Angela? Where in substance will be that which is me? What
a sweet welter life is--how rich, how tender, how grim, how like a
colorful symphony."

Great art dreams welled up into his soul as he viewed the sparkling
deeps of space.

"The sound of the wind--how fine it is tonight," he thought.

Then he went quietly in and closed the door.

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