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Show 96 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER by Trial Lake, Mirror Lake, and Granddaddy Lake fished, swam, fixed bonfire meals, and spent the night in tents. Madelyn's love affair with Harold really began during this trip. When they returned to Salt Lake City Sunday evening, Madelyn was exuberant and full of her youthful vitality. As they exited from Parley's Canyon, they were elated to see the Salt Lake Valley spread out before them "in a glow of beauty-like our lives!" "Each day," she wrote "brings new and undiscov ered happiness, and we travel along together enjoying each new experience to its fullest. Perhaps her turbulent single adult hood was about over. Madelyn was now prepared emotionally to help her younger sister Ruth fill out her trousseau and make her forthcoming wedding to Junius Romney a success. She promised herself that she would not be jealous of Ruth for hav ing her marriage first; she was now thinking that her own might not be far away. Ruth was married on September 4, 1928.30 The relentlessly persistent Harold Silver was at the ranch each weekend during the summer of 1928. On Sunday, July 8, the two went for a "long, glorious climb up East Mountain. Such a comrade he is, such a companion! We never finish talk ing, and it is all so interesting and vital. It seems to me now I can talk out anything with him, and my whole mind fastens itself on sureties and foundations of strength. Being at the ranch helped Madelyn think of an analogy that she explained in a letter to Harold: went "29 "31 One should live and delight in the beauty of the valleys the warm moistness of the woods, the invigorating fruitful ness of the meadows and orchards, the stabilizing convention of the roads and fences. But always one should long for and climb towards the clear, thin air of the hilltops, the long, clear, single vision and soul-strength that come only on the heights." For several years Madelyn's younger brother, John, who was fifteen in 1928, had conducted a poultry enterprise in the back yard of the Stewart home in Salt Lake City. When the family went to the ranch, he put the chickens in traveling boxes that |
