The King's Gold: A Story

Excerpt from The King's Gold: A Story

Here was a gifted mind, a nature sensitive to select the precious gold of life from the alloy, a poetic soul shut in to struggle with petty economies, to toil over washtub and cooking stove, to learn how to do without the amenities and to abound in the discomforts and turn them into serenities.

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