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"Heat!" cried the stranger with sudden excite, burning, blinding! Nights when the very star rays scorch and the moon's a caldron of white lava Ten years of it, Moore, ten years!"

Roger looked at his guest with interest "You aren't an American? There's just a little accent in your speech"

"Me? No I' to do with your solar heat?"

"Harness it," replied Roger, "and see if I can make it work for me"

"There's a fool born every er, cheerfully

There was no further conversation until Roger had put the coffee, bacon and cold biscuits with a can of pie-fruit on the table Von Minden fell to voraciously His table manners were very bad, his hands were dirty but there was soreat trouble getting water," he said "Just struck it, this noon 'Twill be enough for drinking and ation"

"Can't do anything with a dug well, here," grunted the guest "Better drive one"

"Is the sand really fertile in this region?" asked Roger

"Fertile? Friend, there's an eet water and fuel"

"If we can get the fuel we can puht! There is an empire here Mineral resources beyond the dreams of avarice, four or five crops a year of food-stuffs Why, man, "

"What do you er hesitated "IA cheap fuel would open up Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California and Northern old Mexico as no one can conceive who's not studied the subject If I can put over my experiment, I shall add to the potential wealth of this country as no single individual has ever done I'ton, soht to have Mexico, you know, because when the inland eroe'll overflow into Mexico But we never can have her, of course We can only hope that she'll grow into a real nation we can neighbor with, like Canada"

"Ah hah! And how're you going to bring about this er, whose outburst to a stranger had been unprecedented, had nothing more to say on the subject

"Will your burro eat table scraps?" he inquired