met with the word, "Delight thyself in the Lord, and he
shall give thee the desire of thine heart." "
The desire
of thine heart
" Dick repeated this, and pondered it
till he fell asleep.
A misfortune soon after this befell Dick Varley which
well-nigh caused him to give way to despair. For some
time past he had been approaching the eastern slopes
of the Rocky Mountains--those ragged, jagged, mighty
hills which run through the whole continent from north