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"I will, like thunder, you drunken buoing to keep theement can be made The best I can do for you is to leave this door open Fend for yourself, hang you!" And Roger walked off to do the lanced in at the open door of the tool house Dick lay where Roger had left hiony at the roof above his head Roger, without a word, went back to the plant To his relief, Felicia appeared at the breakfast table, very hungry and quite herself But Charley was not able to get up It see years of strain had culminated in yesterday's events, and that Charley had no will-power left

The girl lay on Ernest's cot, the tent flap lifted beside her, with no apparent desire save to stare at the desert dancing in heat waves against the sky What thoughts were passing behind those quiet brown eyes, no one knew

It was er went in to see her He pulled a box up beside the cot "Well, old dear," he said "How is the head?"

Charley sht I a"

Roger nodded "It was a bad knock, to leave you senseless for half an hour I suspect you ought to take pretty good care of yourself for several days I've been talking with Elsa and she thinks you ought to stay here for a few days And I do too Don't worry about Dick I saw hi and he'll be hiain until after she does"

Charley eyed Roger's long brown face as if taking in the full significance of all he had said Then she gave a little sigh of relief

"If I could rest here in this peaceful tent, just for a day or two"

"The tent's all right at night, but I'veto help you over there It's ten degrees cooler than here Elsa and Felicia are established there and I won't disturb you for I', which act is noiseless"

In a diine house in Gustav's cot Charley spent the day Elsa, when she was not playing housekeeper sat beside her with her sewing and Felicia visited between the cot and Roger's drawing board