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"How about ed his shoulders

"You will not need money in the desert," he said "And you haf spent

much money here, on the woive me money"

But the German shook his head

"You viii find et there," he said,

cryptically And Rudolph found neither threats nor entreaties of any

avail

He started out of the town, turning toward the south and west Before

hih the sand and cactus

of the desert, of blistering sun and cold nights, of anxious searches

for water-holes It was because of the water-holes that he headed

southwest, for such as they were they lay in tiny hidden oases in the

canyons Almost as soon as he left the town he was in the desert; a

detached ranch, a suggestion of a road, a fenced-in cotton-field or two,

an irrigation ditch, and then--sand

He was soft from months of inaction, from the cactus whisky of Mexico,

too, that ate into abehind hiirls who