Shall I tell you what I have learned , Joyce ? The gist of the lesson is that I left happiness behind me in the old valley , when I went away from it , happiness and peace and the joy of living . I did not miss these things for a long while ; I did not even know I had lost them . But I have discovered my loss . '' `` Yet you have been a very successful man , '' she said wonderingly . `` As the world calls success , '' he answered bitterly . `` I have place and wealth and power . But that is not success , Joyce . I am tired of these things ; they are the toys of grown-up children ; they do not satisfy the man 's soul . I have come back to the old valley seeking for what might satisfy , but I have little hope of finding it , unless -- unless -- '' He was silent , remembering that he had forfeited all right to her help in the quest . Yet he realized clearly that only she could help him , only she could guide him back to the path he had missed . It seemed to him that she held in her keeping all the good of his life , all the beauty of his past , all the possibilities of his future . Hers was the master word , but how should he dare ask her to utter it ? They walked among the firs until the stars came out , and they talked of many things . She had kept her freshness of soul and her ideals untarnished . In the peace of the old valley she had lived a life , narrow outwardly , wondrously deep and wide in thought and aspiration . Her native hills bounded the vision of her eyes , but the outlook of the soul was far and unhindered . In the quiet places and the green ways she had found what he had failed to find -- the secret of happiness and content . He knew that if this woman had walked hand in hand with him through the years , life , even in the glare and tumult of that world beyond the hills , would never have lost its meaning for him . Oh , fool and blind that he had been !
While he had sought and toiled afar , the best that God had meant for him had been here in the home XXXXX youth .
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