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"Pray do not think rateful, Elbert," she replied, "nor insensible

to the truth of what you say But one Carley went to her room, and precisely as

upon her return from Arizona she faced her mirror skeptically and

relentlessly "I am such a liar that I'll do well to look at ain Now! The world expects me to marry But

what do I expect?"

There was a raw unheated wound in Carley's heart Seldom had she

permitted herself to think about it, let alone to probe it with hard

materialistic queries But custom to her was as inexorable as life If

she chose to live in the world she e was the aim and the end and the all of existence

Nevertheless, for Carley it could not be without love Before she had

gone West she ht have had many of the conventional e But because out there in the wilds her love and

perception had broadened, now her arraigner, sterner,The months she had been home seemed

fuller than all the et and