Capital and Assets over $2,000,000.00 $100,000 in U. S. Bonds deposited with State Treasurer of California for Security of Policy Holders $100,000 in U. S. Bonds deposited with State Treasurer of California for Security of Policy Holders ALFRED JONES, MANAGER PACIFIC DEPARTMENT Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, 423 CALIFORNIA STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. THE BRIDE OF INFELICE CHAPTER I THE ALIEN THE mid-October afternoon was drawing to a close. The atmosphere, with its quivering transparency of azure haze, was redolent of the subtile, honied odor of late-blooming meadow flowers; and that languorous hush which often precedes the dissolution of a New England Indian summer day seemed to encompass all living things. The only sounds that came to break the stillness was the low, monotonous purling of a little stream that found its way through the pasture, and a confused bird-symphony issuing from the intricate vistas of birch and maple-wood which in every direction showed dazzling conflagrations of color, deviating from richest tints of vermilion to saffron, russet and gold. Gray rocks slept beneath softly clinging burdens of ivy and reddening brake; groups of deer |