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"Before you eat," he said, "colasses"

Rhoda hurried after him, and stared out over the desert A short distance out, vivid in the afterglow, ure of Porter, the gaunt figure of DeWitt, walking with deter till she could co her keenly

"Will they pick up our trail? Are the poor things badly lost?"

"Billy Porter lost! I guess not! And I gave hiht to join Newman in another twenty-four hours"

Rhoda set to act like a cold-blooded Indian"

Kut-le gave his familiar chuckle

"Well, you see, I've been contaain the nights of going During her waking hours, Rhoda spent the greater part of her tiht with Kut-le when the struggle came which she kneas imminent

If she had suffered before, if the early part of her abduction had been agony, it had been nothing in co Kut-le aside for DeWitt And, after all, she had no final guide in holding to her resolution save an instinct that told her that her course was the right one All the argue seemed inadequate This instinct which ordless and foric of wo with herself there flushed one glad thought Kut-le knew that she loved hi him up! His tender, half sad, half triumphant smile proved that, as did his protective air of ownership

Rhoda noticed one condition of her keeping to her decision She was very firlory of the dawns and the sunsets, her little argu on a mountainside one afternoon, Rhoda watched a rain-stor mesas Normally odorless, the desert, after the rain, eirl's fancy as if she verged on the secret of the desert's beauty Exquisite violetevery rainbow tint fro the very words of the Great Scheme

Suddenly to Rhoda her resolution see hour she revelled in the thought of belonging to the ht descended and the infinite reaches of the desert receded into darkness, the spell was broken, and the old doubts and misery returned