Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, Harold Bell Wright is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. This is the story of a man who regained that which in his youth had been lost to him; and of how, even when he had recovered it, he still paid the price of his loss. It is the story of a woman who was saved from herself; and of how she was led to hold fast to those things, the loss of which cost the man so great a price. The story, as I have put it down here, begins at Prescott, Arizona, in one of those far-western years that saw the passing of the Indian and the coming of the automobile. . . .