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"Wonderful!" exclaiirl "Shore that is Arizona I reckon I love THIS The heights an' depths--the awfulness of its wilderness!"

"An' you want to leave it?"

"Yes an' no I don't deny the peace that comes to me heah But not often do I see the Basin, an' for that rand scenery"

"Child, even once in a while--this sight would cure any lad you showed it to me first"

She too seemed under the spell of a vastness and loneliness and beauty and grandeur that could not but strike the heart

Jean took her hand again "Girl, say you willdeep in his ears

"Shore I will," she replied, softly, and turned to him It seemed then that Jean saw her face for the first tiainst that scene, she gave it life--wild, sweet, young life--the poignant ed there Her eyes were again searching his, as if for some lost part of herself, unrealized, never known before Wondering, wistful, hopeful, glad-they were eyes that seemed surprised, to reveal part of her soul

Then her red lips parted Their trehty force pulled him down to kiss them Whatever the spell had been, that rude, unconscious action broke it

He jerked away, as if he expected to be struck "Girl--I--I"--he gasped in a contrition--"I kissed you--but I swear it wasn't intentional--I never thought"

The anger that Jean anticipated failed tohard, with a hand held out in unconscious appeal By the saured her a ain by the older character

"Shore I reckon entleman was a little previous," she said, with a rather dry bitterness "But, stranger, yu're sudden"

"You're not insulted?" asked Jean, hurriedly

"Oh, I've been kissed before Shore men are all alike"

"They're not," he replied, hotly, with a subtle rush of disillusion, a dulling of enchantment "Don't you class me with other men who've kissed you I wasn't one on iveness But noouldn't--an' I wouldn't kiss you again, either--even if you--you wanted it"