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Rhoda stood rigidly Molly, sensing trouble, hovered restlessly just out of earshot

"If you et the desert? Forget our days and nights? Forget my arms about you?"

"Oh, no! No!" cried Rhoda "You know that I shall love you always!"

"And will DeWitt hat you offer him?" Kut-le went on, mercilessly

Rhoda winced

"I wish," said Kut-le huskily, "you never will knoish that you had co that the sacrifice orth while!"

Rhoda looked at hily After all the weeks of iron deterreat heart failing hih to stand the test That after the travail and the heart scourging, you would see--and would corets and fears That thought steeled h the torture But if now, at the end, you are co to me only because you must! Rhoda, I don't want you on those terms"

Rhoda gasped She felt as one feels when in a dream one falls an unexpected and endless distance The relief from the pressure of Kut-le's will that had forced her on, for so long, left her weak and aith to say: "Kut-le, we o! Oh, can't you see how I feel about it!"

Again Kut-le looked far off over vista of mountains and cañon His eyes were deep and abstracted, as if he saw into the years ahead with knowledge denied to Rhoda Then he turned to Rhoda and searched her face with burning gaze He eyed her hair, her lovely heart-broken face, her slender figure For a moment his face was tortured by a look of doubt that was heart-shattering He lifted Rhoda across his chest in the old way and held her to hiainst hers and she heard him whisper: "O my love! Love of ently to her feet "Don't cry," he said "I can't bear it!"

Rhoda threw her arony

"Oh, I cannot, cannot bear this!" Then she added ain the look of unspeakable grief crossed the young Indian's face, but it i the cañon edge

"Do you see that little trail going down?" he said