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In May, Carley returned to Flagstaff to take up with earnest inspiration

the labors of ho in a prie and purchases out to

Deep Lake The road was good for eighteen miles of the distance, until

it branched off to reach her land, and from there it was desert rock

and sand But eventually they s dumped out into the windy and sunny open The moment was

singularly thrilling and full of transport She was free She had shaken

off the shackles She faced lonely, wild, barren desert that enius of her direction and the labor of her

hands Always a thought of Glenn hovered tenderly, dreamily in the back

of her consciousness, but she welcomed the opportunity to have a feeeks of work and activity and solitude before taking up her life with

him She wanted to adapt herself to the ht in her

To her aress had beenthe cedars had

been erected the tents where she expected to live until the house

was coh off the

ground, and there were four of the The bed was a boxlike affair, raised off the floor

two feet, and it contained a great, fragrant hs upon