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Three weeks of this self-i wore by before

Carley was free enough froeneral health, evidently, had not been so good as when

she had first visited Arizona She caught cold and suffered other ills

attendant upon an abrupt change of cliedly

she kept at her task She rode when she should have been in bed; she

walked when she should have ridden; she cliround And finally by degrees so gradual as not to be

noticed except in the suan to mend

Meanwhile the construction of her house went on with uninterrupted

rapidity When the low, slanting, wide-eaved roof was completed Carley

lost further concern about rainstor

was all in and Carley saw verification of Hoyle's assurance that it

would ravity supply of water ample and continual, she lost her

last concern as to the practicability of the work That, and the earning

of her endurance, see closer a wonderful reward, still

nameless and spiritual, that had been unattainable, but now breathed to

her on the fragrant desert wind and in the brooding silence

The time came when each afternoon's ride or cliht But the fact that she must soon reveal to Glenn her

presence and transformation did not seem to be all the cause She

could ride without pain, ithout losing her breath, ithout