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Meanwhile the young tourist had alighted before the door of the principal hotel, and, after writing his name in a clear and precise hand on the book in the office, had hastened to his supper, carrying a ure and flushed and speaking face of the girl on the trail That , had already becoe "She was born of the sunset; she does not really exist," he said, with unwonted war town produce so exquisite a flower?"

His grosser needs supplied, he lit his big student's pipe and went out upon the upper story of the hotel's rude porch, and there sat, listening to the rush of the streareat yellow stars appeared one by one above the lofty peaks, and the air grew crisp to frostiness He was profoundly at peace with the world and hiive this hour a sound coht deepened, the girl's beauty allured like the ht to explain her "She is some traveller like , the wilderness does not produceline of well-bred people"

He was not an emotional person, and had not been permitted to consider pleasure the chief object, even of a vacation, but he went to his bed that night well pleased with Colorow, and with a half-defined sense that this was, after all, the point towards which his long journey, with all its windings, had really tended However, he was not ready to acknowledge that a large part of the charlaht in the town and its surroundings gained a new quality next le white cloud resting like a weary swan on the keen point of old Kanab Though the mesas of New Mexico and the deserts of Arizona were his special field, he bared his head to the charh country"

Each su into the hidden heart of s in his laboratory (he was both analytical cheist), it was his custoe, crude synthetic, nature for relief After endless discussion of "whorls of force" and of "the office of geranism," he enjoyed the racy vernacular of the plainsman, to whom bacteria were as indifferent as blackberry-seeds Each year he resolved to go to the forest, to the lake regions, or to the mountains; but as the day of departure drew near the desert and the strange peoples living thereon reasserted their dominion, and so he had continued to return to the sand, to the home of the horned toad and the rattlesnake These trips restored the sane balance of his mind To camp in the chaparral, to explore the source of streams, and to relive the wonder of the boy kept his faculties alert and keen