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"I'll go up and take a look," Good Indian offered carelessly

"Well, I wish you would I can't keepwhat the deuce he's after And say! You tell hi'in Folks come with yuh?" he remembered to ask as he prepared for another cast into the pool

"They're down there getting a campfire built, ready to fry what fish they catch," Good Indian infor to eat dinner under that big ledge by the rapids You better go on down"

He stood for a er an cli up the steep slope of jumbled bowlders upon which the bluff itself seemed to rest He was not particularly interested in his quest, but he was in the mood for purposeless action; he still did not want to think

He cli loose rocks down the hill behind hi upon Peppajee--unless Peppajee deliberately put himself in his way--and so there was no need of caution He stopped once, and stood long h-keyed laughter and talk which drifted up to hiliht honestly Whereupon he forgot all about finding and expostulating with Peppajee, and thought only a point of the ridge which would give hiht as easily have retraced his steps and joined the group, and seen every changing look in her face But he did not want to be near her when others were by; he wanted her to himself, or not at all So he went on, while the sun beat hotly down upon him and the rocks sent up dry waves of heat like an oven

A rattlesnake buzzed its strident warning between two rocks, but before he turned his attention to the business of killing it, the snake had crawled leisurely away into a cleft, where he could not reach it with the stones he threw His thoughts, however, were brought back to his surroundings so that he remembered Peppajee He stood still, and scanned carefully the jumble of rocks and bowlders which sloped steeply down to the river, looking for a betraying bit of color or dirty gray hat-crown

"But I could look my eyes out and welcome, if he didn't want to be seen," he concluded, and sat dohile he rolled a cigarette "And I don't know as I want to see him, anyway" Still, he did not move iratulation on such a day He had a cigarette between his lips, whicheffects of his unpre co He sat there, and blew occasionalheat waves, and stared down at the river rushing over the i as soon as possible the broader sweep of the Snake