Thorne drew her hand within his arm and they moved on slowly in the faint moonlight that etherealized the plain.
"It is a marvelous night!" he exclaimed. "The wilderness gripped me when I came out, but I don't think I ever realized how wonderful it is as I do just now. And there are people who can see in it only an empty, wind-swept land!"
He drew her impulsively to him.
"Still, there are excuses for them. Only part of the glamour is in the prairie. The rest of it is due to the supreme good fortune that has fallen to me."
"You are very sure of that?" murmured Alison.
"Yes," declared Thorne, with resolute decisiveness, "it's a certainty that will only grow deeper as the years roll on!"
THE END
Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edition have been corrected.
In Chapter I, "a rather hazardout undertaking" was changed to "a rather hazardous undertaking".