I graduate of Smith College and a Yankee on both sides of the family, RUTH M. GOLDSMITH worked in publishing and for the Government on its economic warfare program in Spain and Washington before moving to Florida, where she now lives and does her writing. “Beyond the end of our road,” she says, “lies the rather wild land with the tall pines and palmettos, such a place as might be good for setting up a still, for those so inclined.”