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Rhoda answered angrily

"I' Apache went on

"It makes me tired to hear the white women of your class talk of their equality toto make you equal You live off some one else You don't even produce children Huh! No wonder nature kicks you out with all ers of the machinery For heaven's sake, wake up, Rhoda! Except for your latent possibilities, you aren't in it with Molly!"

"You have some touchstone, I suppose," replied Rhoda contement on mankind?"

"I sure have!" said Kut-le "It is that you so live that you die spiritually richer than you were born Life is a si, after all To keep one's body and soul healthy, to bear children, to give more than we take And I believe that in the end it will seem to have been worth while"

Rhoda made no answer Kut-le ate on in silence for a time, then he said wistfully: "Don't you enjoy this lanced fro, then at the crude meal

"I don't enjoy it, no," she answered quietly

So in the quiet sincerity of the voice caused Kut-le to rise abruptly and order the Indians to break caht he rode close beside her whenever the way permitted and talked to her of the beauty of the desert At last, lashed to desperation by her indifference, he cried: "Can't you see that your silence leads to nothing--that it maddens me!"

"That is what I want it to do," returned Rhoda callad if I can !"

Kut-le did not reply for a ine that I a? Try to put yourself in my place for a moment! Can't you see how I love you? Can't you see thatyou so? Wouldn't you have done the same in my place? If I had been a white man I wouldn't have been driven to this I would have had an equal chance with DeWitt and could have won easily But I had all the prejudice againstto do: to take you to the naked desert where you would be forced to see life as I see it, where you would be forced to see me, the man, far from any false standards of civilization"