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Rhoda woke in the round before a sloping slab of stone and patiently kneeded corn with a s, a quaint repetition of short mellow syllables pleased Rhoda's sensitive ear and she lay listening When Marie saw Rhoda's wide eyes she caood now?" she queried

"Yes, et up"

The Indian woman nodded

"Marie clean white squaw's clothes White squaear Marie's Now Marie help you wash"

Rhoda smiled

"You are not an Apache if you want nantly

"Marie is Pueblo squaw!"

The clothes that Marie brought, Rhoda thought very attractive There was a soft wool underdress of crea it at one shoulder, a gay, many-colored overdress which, like the one she herself wore, reached to the knees Rhoda pulled on her own high laced boots which had been neatly lected braid of hair

When it was loosened and hung in tangled ht in its loveliness knew no expression She fetched a queer battered old comb which she washed and then proceeded with true fe locks In the uise with delight Indeed her delicate face, above the audy nasturtium bed

"We can only let you on the roof," said Kut-le, as carrying Rhoda's sombrero

Rhoda made no reply but when Marie had plaited her hair in a rippling braid she followed Kut-le up the short ladder Her sense of cleanliness after the weeks of disorder was delightful As she stepped on the flat-topped roof and the sweet clear air filled her lungs she felt as if reborn With Navajo blankets, Kut-le had contrived an awning that not only made a bit of shade but precluded view froly picturesque against the yellow gray of the adobe Rhoda, dropped luxuriantly to the heap of blankets and turned her face toward the mountain, many-colored and bare toward the base, deep-cloaked with piñon, oak and Juniper on the uplands Fro over its shallow bed of stone and rich with green along its flat banks Close beside the river was the Pueblo village, the s, on one of the roofs of which Rhoda sat

Kut-le, stretched on the roof near by, sirl's quiet face, but he did not speak For three or four hours the two sat thus in silence Just as the sun sank behind thesoftly Then Kut-le broke his silence