in the same tone. It was not your fault you failed.
If by any chance I have made a mistake a word will bring me to
you. But I know very well that that word will never be spoken.

"Your great success has been my joy, our joy as well as yours.
You have made for yourself a unique place upon the stage. We have
so many actresses who aspire to great things in the drama, not
one who can interpret as you have interpreted it, the delicate
finesse, the finer lights and shades of true comedy. Ennison will
make a thousand enemies if he takes you from the stage. Yet I
think that he will do it.

"For my own part I have come fully now into my inheritance. I am
bound to admit that I greatly enjoy my altered life. Every minute
I spend here is an education to me. Before very long I hope to
have definite work. Some of my schemes are already in hand.
People shrug their shoulders and call me a crazy socialist. Yet I
fancy that we who have been poor ourselves must be the best
judges of the needs of the people.

"You will write to me, I am sure--and from the date of your
letter I trust most earnestly that I may come back to my old
place as

"Your devoted friend,
"WALTER BRENDON."

She set the letter down, and drew from her pocket another with a
foreign post mark which had come the day before. This one too she
read.

"HASSELL'S CAMP,
"NEAR COLORADO.

"On or about the day you receive this letter, Anna, the six
months will be up. Do you expect me, I wonder. I think not. At
any rate, here I am, and here I shall be, twenty thousand feet
above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God's wind comes
fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows.
Sometimes I tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing
through life without a single glimpse, a moment's revelation of
this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the mystery of
primaeval nature. It is a true saying that in the mountains there
is peace. One's sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in
the daily life of cities, reasserts itself. I love you still,
Anna, but life holds other things than the love of man for woman.
Some day I shall come back, and I will show you on canvas the
things which have come to me up here amongst the et