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"But you won't hate it!" cried Cartwell "Youas the hand of God"

Rhoda shuddered

"Don't talk about it, please! I'll try to think of so else"

They drove in silence for some moments Rhoda, her thin hands clasped in her lap, resolutely stared at the young Indian's profile In the unreal world in which she drifted, she needed soth, so She was lonely--lonely as so with sick eyes the joy of the world to which he is denied As she stared at the stern young profile beside her, into her heart crept the now familiar thrill

Suddenly Cartwell turned and looked at her quizzically

"Well, what are your conclusions?"

Rhoda shook her head

"I don't know, except that it's hard to realize that you are an Indian"

Cartwell's voice was ironical

"The only good Indian is a dead Indian, you know I'm liable to break loose any time, believe me!"

Rhoda's eyes were on the far lavender line where the mesa melted into the mountains

"Yes, and then what?" she asked

Cartwell's eyes narrowed, but Rhoda did not see

"Then I'm liable to follow Indian tradition and take whatever I want, by whatever y! And what are you liable to want?"

"Oh, I want the sa to have it lowed curiously as he looked at Rhoda

But the girl was giving his words small heed Her eyes still were turned toward the desert, as though she had forgotten her companion Sand whirls crossed the distant levels, ceaselessly Huge and e, crossed the desert triumphantly, then, at contact with rock or cholla thicket, collapsed and disappeared Endless, ainst the bronze blue sky For the first ti Indian, watching the girl's face, beheld in it what even DeWitt never had seen there--beheld deadly fear He was silent for abrown hand over her tre little fists His voice was deep and soft

"Don't," he said, "don't!"

Perhaps it was the subtle, not-to-be-fathohts all sham; perhaps it was that Rhoda merely had reached the limit of her heroic self-containment and that, had DeWitt or Newiven way in the sa Indian's presence had in it a quality that roused new life in her Whatever the cause; the listless ray eyes and they ild and black with fear