it took one more fool of a man to teach her good and proper in the fall of the year when the colors of the trees and the brilliance of the skies filled young hearts with passion and a heightened sense of the tragedy of life , but by christmas , all was well again , which was handy , because roger senior came home then for a visit , bringing cowboy shirts for everyone and little boy sized chaps for his son and stories about the wild west , where hed been stationed a while in denver , colorado .