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The sun was hanging low in the clear blue over the prairie, as two

riders hurried their ponies along a blind trail toward a distant

range of purple hills that lay like sleepy watchers along the banks

of the Red River

The beasts must have ridden far, for their flanks hite with

foam, and their riders were splashed with froth andout his arht of the sun from the horizon "How red it is;

andto the

tyrants who oppress these fair plains; but they cannot read the

signs"

There was not a motion anywhere in all the heavens, and the only

sound that broke the stillness was the dull trample of the ponies'

hoofs upon the sod On either side was the wide level prairie,

covered with thick, tall grass, through which blazed the purple,

crier lily,

too, rose here and there like a sturdy queen of beauty with its great

terra cotta petals, specked with umber-brown Here and there, also,

upon the mellow level, stood a cluins without suitors, with their robes drawn close about

them; but when over the unracefully, as a co

commands