Chapter 22 THE GOING HOME

"Despair lies down and grovels, grapples not

With evil, casts the burden of its lot.

This Age climbs earth.

-To challenge heaven.

-Not less The lower deeps.

It laughs at Happiness."

-George Meredith

Everybody on Bonanza knew that the Colonel had left off struggling to get out of his bed to go to work, had left off calling for h