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By and by a craggy red wall looan

conformation was fao

down to the creek Sycaes overhanging the water, and a huge sentinel pine marked the spot

where she and Glenn had eaten their lunch that last day Her

splashed into the clear water and halted to drink Beyond, through the

trees, Carley saw the sunny red-earthed clearing that was Glenn's far lip until she

tasted blood Then she rode out into the open

The whole west side of the canyon had been cleared and cultivated and

plowed But she gazed no farther She did not want to see the spot where

she had given Glenn his ring and had parted from him She rode on If

she could pass West Fork she believed her courage would rise to the

completion of this ordeal Places hat she feared Places that she

had loved while blindly believing she hated! There the narrow gap of

green and blue split the loo into West

Fork Up there stood the cabin How fierce a pang rent her breast! She

faltered at the crossing of the branch stream, and almost surrendered

The water mur--all with some sad sweetness that see up West Fork was like a barrier She saw horse