Page 172 (1/1)

"And you are so to realize that I have gone through life with my eyes shut The man with one idea misses most of life I went up there with the intention of threatening a lot of savages I've coent and kind hearted fellow humans"

"It onderful of them, wasn't it!" exclaiations, to er nodded and looked at his watch "It's only nine o'clock now If it wasn't so frightfully hot and there were any place to go, I'd say let's continue our spree"

"Just beyond that strip of desert there," Charley pointed into the valley to the east, "there are so I've never seen them, but I've alanted to and I know the trail Dick has shown it to etting fat and lazy I believe it's about ten degrees hotter than usual"

It was an hour's climb down into the valley It lost its level look on near inspection In every direction a fine, powderlike sand lay in long undulating ridges Neither rock nor cactus was to be seen A faint as stirring and tiny eddies of sand rose against the sky

"You see that peak, due east?" asked Charley "Well, the spring is just at the foot of that in a little canyon There's never any trail here at all, the sand drifts so"

"I'er "I know I can eer leading, Peter following behind Charley It was heavy sloalking After perhaps an hour of it, during which conversation languished er s, do you?"

"Well," replied Roger, stopping to wipe the sand froer about the hieroglyphics to begin with I haven't taken a girl for a walk for years and I thought this wasup?" chuckled Charley

Roger cleared his throat "You see, it's like this--" he began, his eyes twinkling

Charley interrupted by catching his arer looked up the desert to the north The faray veil of sand was plainly visible "Lord!" he exclaimed "We'd better start back at once"