country
there is
nothing
left to
steal. But
the
railroad
came, and
built a
branch to
that land
of the
Virginian’s
where the
coal was.
By that
time he
was an
important
man, with
a strong
grip on
many
various
enterprises,
and able
to give
his wife
all and
more than
she asked
or
desired.
Sometimes
she missed
the Bear
Creek
days, when
she and he
had ridden
together,
and
sometimes
she
declared
that his
work would
kill him.
But it
does not
