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But shortly Kut-le freed Rhoda's ave Alchise a swift look, and with infinite care the descent was begun Kut-le did not like traveling in the daylight, for many reasons Carefully, swiftly theythe wall Late in the afternoon they eed on an open mesa All the wretched day Rhoda had traveled in a fearsoht with a glare that seared her eyes, held in a vice that gripped her until she screa that the shepherd had whistled tortured her tired brain

"The day that I leftsea, I said, 'Mother dear, O pray to thy God for me!' But e'er we set sail I went a fond leave to take--"

Over and over she sang the three lines, ending each tihtened stare up into Kut-le's face

"Whoain the tired voice: "The day that I left ht cay, heavily wooded mountain Kut-le did not relinquish his burden He seeht of the slender body that lay now in helpless stupor If the squaws or Alchise felt fatigue or impatience as Kut-le held them to a pace on the tortuous trail that would nearly have exhausted a Caucasian athlete, they gave no sign All the endless night Kut-le led the way under the ht of the stars, until the lifting light of the dawn found thee of a little river

In the di with ladders faintly outlined on the terraces There was no sound save the barking of a dog and the ripple of the river With a muttered admonition, Kut-le left Rhoda to the others and cliure that gazed on Rhoda non-coroup , clambered up a ladder, and disappeared

Rhoda opened her eyes with a sense of physical co, gray-walled room In one corner was a tiny adobe fire-place from which a tinier fire threw a jet of fla the walls were benches with splendid Navajos rolled cushion-wise upon thearskin quivers beneath the with silver necklaces of beautiful work china dishes