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If spring came at all to Oak Creek Canyon it waruish with the fever characteristic of early June

in the East

As if by reen buds

opened into leaves, the bluebells and primroses bloomed, the apple and

peach blossoainst the blue sky

Oak Creek fell to a transparent, beautiful brook, leisurely eddying in

the stone walled nooks, hurrying with murmur and babble over the little

falls The rantly cool, the noon hours

seehts fell like dark mantles from

the melancholy star-sown sky

Carley had stubbornly kept on riding and cli until she killed her

secret doubt that she was really a thoroughbred, until she satisfied her

own insistent vanity that she could train to a point where this outdoor

life was not too th She lost flesh despite increase

of appetite; she lost her pallor for a coold-brown she knew

her Eastern friends would admire; she wore out the blisters and aches

and pains; she found herself growing firmer of muscle, lither of line,

deeper of chest And in addition to these physical ht in a freedom of body she had never

before known, of an exhilaration in action thatoff of numberless petty and fussy and

luxurious little superficialities which she had supposed were necessary

to her happiness What she had undertaken in vain conquest of Glenn's

pride and Flo Hutter's Western tolerance she had found to be a

boo She had won Glenn's adnition But her passionate, stubborn desire had been