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At length Bo grew tired of watching scenery that contained no life, and, with her bright head on the faded cloak, she went to sleep But Helen kept steady, farseeing gaze out upon that land of rock and plain; and during the long hours, as she watched through clouds of dust and veils of heat, soe and then to fix It was her physical acceptance--her eyes and her senses taking the West as she had already taken it in spirit

A woman should love her home wherever fate placed her, Helen believed, and not soHow could life ever be tedious or monotonous out here in this tremendous vastness of bare earth and open sky, where the need to achieve ret that she saw the last of the valley of the Rio Grande, and then of its paralleled ht compensation in other valleys, other bold, black upheavals of rock, and then again bare, boundless yellow plains, and sparsely cedared ridges, and white dry washes, ghastly in the sunlight, and dazzling beds of alkali, and then a desert space where golden and blue flowers bloomed

She noted, too, that the whites and yellows of earth and rock had begun to shade to red--and this she knew meant an approach to Arizona Arizona, the wild, the lonely, the red desert, the green plateau--Arizona with its thundering rivers, its unknown spaces, its pasture-lands and timber-lands, its wild horses, cowboys, outlaolves and lions and savages! As to a boy, that na to her of nas, irl of twenty, who had accepted responsibilities, must conceal the depths of her heart and that which herborn a boy

Time passed, while Helen watched and learned and drea intervals, at wayside stations where there see but adobe sheds and lazy Mexicans, and dust and heat Bo awoke and began to chatter, and to dig into the basket She learned frodalena was only two stations on And she was full of conjectures as to ould meet them, ould happen So Helen was drawn back to sober realities, in which there was considerable zest Assuredly she did not knoas going to happen Twice Riggs passed up and down the aisle, his dark face and light eyes and sardonic sht a growing dread with contemptuous scorn This felloas not half a man It was not conceivable what he could do, except annoy her, until she arrived at Pine Her uncle was to meet her or send for her at Snowdrop, which place, Helen kneas distant a good long ride by stage froe-ride was the cli journey, in Helen's considerations