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DeWitt answered tersely

"I'lad you're well, but only for your own sake and because I can have you longer I don't want you to work forthat's done in our fa me lazy and selfish!"

"You couldn't be selfish if you tried You pay your ith your beauty When I think of that Apache devil having the joy of you all this ti care of you, carrying you, it makes me feel like a cave man I could kill him with a club! Thank heaven, the lynch law can hold in this forsaken spot! And there isn't a man in the country but will back uilty!"

Rhoda sat in utter consternation The power of the desert to lay bare the human soul appalled her This was a DeWitt that the East never could have shown her It sickened her as she realized that no words of hers could sway thisto stay with her feeble feminine hands passions that were as old a world-force as love itself All her new-found strength seemed inadequate to solve this new problem