HE RE was little of pleas- 

 ant interest in the next 

 eighteen monthsof Jack's 

 career. His share of the 

 globe was a twenty-foot 

 circle around a pole in the yard. The 

 blue hills of the offing, the nearer pine 

 grove, and even the ranch-house itself 

 were fixed stars, far away and sending 

 merely faint suggestions of their splen- 

 dors to his not very bright eyes. Even 

 the horses and men were outside his 

 little sphere and related to him about 



