Beyond the sunset

ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SMITH
AUTHOR OF THE DOOM TRAIL
NEW YORK BRENTANO'S PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY BRENTANO'S COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY THE RIDGEWAY COMPANY First Printing . . . January, 1923. Second . . . February, 1923 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER

BEYOND THE SUNSET
There is none like your wanderer to settle himself coseywise by a warm hearth. An outcast and adventurer from boyhood, exiled from England for adherence to the Pretender, my estates forfeited, dependent for bread upon the earnings of my sword in a foreign service, Fate tossed me across the broad Atlantic to this New World of ours—and in one short year I had found Marjory and fortune!
I became straightway as sedate as any Dutch burgher betwixt Port George and the stockade of the Outward. Camp-bred and forest-schooled, I yet discovered zest in the problems of merchantry and exulted in the petty tasks of the householder. I was a model of husbandry. But Fate was not satisfied with its work. Two years of joy I had; then came the fever that the Portuguese snow brought north from the Main to scourge New York. In a week my joy was turned to ashes. She, who had braved the perils of the wilderness with me, wilted and died.