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There she lay It see place The pit was

scarcely six feet across She gazed upward and was astounded How

steep was the rounded slope on all sides! There were no sides; it was

a circle She looked up at a round lake of deep translucent sky Such

depth of blue, such exquisite rare color! Carley ih it to the infinite beyond

She closed her eyes and rested Soon the laboring of heart and breath

calmed to normal, so that she could not hear them Then she lay

perfectly motionless With eyes shut she seeh the blood and flesh of her eyelids It

was red, as rare a hue as the blue of sky So piercing did it grow that

she had to shade her eyes with her arlow suffused her body Never in all her life

had she been so absolutely alone She ht have been dead to all earthy things and reveling in

spirit in the glory of the physical that had escaped her in life And

she abandoned herself to this influence

She loved these dry, dusty cinders; she loved the crater here hidden

from all save birds; she loved the desert, the earth--above all, the