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"Wal, hyar's Oak Creek Canyon," called the driver

Carley, rousing out of her weary preoccupation, opened her eyes to see

that the driver had halted at a turn of the road, where apparently it

descended a fearful declivity

The very forest-fringed earth seemed to have opened into a deep abyss,

ribbed by red rock walls and choked by steep reen timber The

chas doard sent at

once a chill and a shudder over Carley At that point it appeared narrow

and ended in a box In the other direction, it widened and deepened,

and stretched farther on between trereen with glied by white rapids A lowwaters floated

up to Carley's ears What a wild, lonely, terrible place! Could Glenn

possibly live down there in that ragged rent in the earth? It frightened

her--the sheer sudden plunge of it froht shone on the forested floor And on the olden blaze down into the depths,