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Carley turned frodom and faced her future with the

profound and sad and far-seeing look that had coive Sometime and somewhere there would be recompense

She would hide her wound in the faith that time would heal it And the

ordeal she set herself, to prove her sincerity and strength, was to ride

down to Oak Creek Canyon

Carley did not wait e how the old vanity held her back

until soone!

Oneher best horse, and she took a

sheep trail across country The distance by road was rant Mocking birds sang fro of cedars; doves cooed in the pines; sparroks sailed

low over the open grassy patches Desert primroses showed their rounded

pink clusters in sunny places, and here and there burned the carmine of

Indian paint-brush Jack rabbits and cotton-tails bounded and scae The desert had life and color and rance on the air

Herand consistent travel over the

desert Her weight was nothing to hi lope

for miles As she approached Oak Creek Canyon, however, she drew hiht of the deep red-walled and green-floored

canyon was a shock to her