11 at least, something heat like an aching pulse away hack in my mind. and deep in my heart. Letters from new Iork tlxrilxed me to the bone. rnhmtan I could have hug,-god a stranger from out my old

world. And. then my work-any writing!

when 1 ram came to Aliberta i:uue'wu1nn. a little track in men auormymemecriptlwerekept. Byandbyxneedtccellitnymomne. For tire years I never opened it. For five year: I never wrote a line.

been I was mm a love etery, you nee--not writing one! But there

was to me gzeduelly comprehension or the not that after ali t§%uu-alt does not make life wholly Joyful.

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‘the summer and the long lovely tall passed away. ".313 children were sent away to boarding schools. 1 -as alone on the ranch. with a housekeeper meet or the time. our men were riding the range on the Fall round up. fly lmeband was out with them. $o!net11nea they would be gone three and four day: at the time. who range was an immense one. as 3: were zneneicned. and we were riding with two other outtite. It takes considerable time to gather in sever al "thousand head of cattle and horse.

cold. weather set in soon after the ‘roundup and the dispersal of the herd in new tielfi. rho breeding stock his: and pure bred: Ind been cuapaeonsa to the prairie ranch. no mean went down to the pun» Z to be there upon their arrival. I did not accompany him, because the was-therweeeocolmenrihethouglxtthclongtripwaatcohardforavvonnn. ‘ so there 1 va.s.a_1one math a Swedish wnmn ot the peasant type, when the first ‘ snowstorm came out of the north. I smoke to a. sudden piercing realisatio of what : he done in cutting myseb of: from all my on £1-ienda and associates and isolating myself. on an Alberta ranch. Pclloweaa awe and days -308 week! -—rthru. during which I never left the bottle once. We were enclaed. in

a vest atom, e. storm that never ceased. that slut 11: ct! me: an the rest