do circumstances modify our notions of felicity.

Two weeks after this "Richard was himself again."

The muscles were springy, and the blood coursed fast

and free, as was its wont. Only a slight, and, perhaps,

salutary feeling of weakness remained, to remind him

that young muscles might again become more helpless

than those of an aged man or a child.

Dick had left his encampment a week ago, and was

now advancing by rapid stages towards the Rocky

Mountains, closely following the trail of his lost comrades,