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plastercd thc wound WIN tn. clean
waste taken from the tpulhuu>, and had
wrapped his cue around IT, Maggie re-
gardcd the hurt with a little hit If wo-
manly horror. and then she thought II
how her lover had walked all that night
through the sands with his head wreck
I'd by her fathers effort and had not in
timatod that he was injured at all
He is worth it, said Maggie And
tcndcrly she dressed the wound. wash
ing il with the precious water Hong Foy
had carried in the great bottle He is
worth it, =
If you would have u guess at the
smallest part Of that awful journey 70
out on the Southern Pacific the place
where the temperature is normally at
40 in Jun" lit III o'clock in the day
time, where the air is - HIT that it
curlS itself ny. - here the alkali is baked
into powder finer than the finest powder
known to madeleine, and without the
slightcS, r,aih If air to a9i,aic it Sits
and scattcr> about over the face # the
earth, being drawn up by the sun Just
rs you have heard If water hcing drawn
up. II will bc an unpleasant ride to
you, for you Will leave your coat at
Ogden and Your raiment along the right
Of way with great persistence, until in
the middle OF the desert yau will be a
disgrace and Will belong i'll the same
epoch as Adam and Eve, but you will
not think Of Adam and Eve. for they
lived where water was and grass and
aud Ilnec.,,,,- - l.,
you insane TO think Of those as you look
ed out on the writhing blue lines Of
mountains millions of miles away
Mountains which You SEE here this mo-
mcnt and which are gone when you look
again. And beating, beating. beating
with might that makes your head
thump is the great world consuming
sun
Yes, if you would like To guess about
Maggie and Hong Foy-the crippled
Hong Foy-and their II days parching,
furnishing, agonizing journey until they
walked out of death and into green
line of paradise which ran along Il clear
river. yor must go there and do it for
yourself And ut the end Of the jour
ney, if You ever get 10 the end of it.
perhaps You will fall fainting and
deathlike at the margin of the stream
as Hong Foy did, or perhaps you will
drop on your knees and pray as did
Maggie.
The only thing in the cabin, " said
Graves, (which plainly was not made
out of the things hereabout is great
bottle, which is apparently for water l
wonder where it came from"
II don't" said the driver of the
water wagon. "What | want To know
is about that there humpy loolin camel
beast that the boy met Us on Tell me
where that thing came from and I'll go
home satisfied.
They don't know themselves. = said
Ford. They only know he came i'll
here one day, and the woman says ne
was sent by God TO help the Chince
haul wood i'll winter time, but the Chi
naman insists that he was created out
of the alkali or something, from what
gather i'll talking to him. as a special
gift of his joss. The boy says nothing
/ consider that beast the greatest object
lesson in the Cancellation of religious
disputes that / ever struck, for while
holding these different views they don't
quarrel about him. The real explana-
tion is probably that he is the offspring
of some of those camels the United
States government bought over from
Africa several years ago for use in the
Arizona army posts. but which turned
out failure and Were let loose to roam
where they would"
Il suppose. said Graves, that you
will say in your report that the red
headed. half Chinese kind is the natural
child of the DESERT"
YES. If this land Of heat and hard.
ship is ever to be peoplcd. l think that
will be the breed for it,
Did ii ever strike you, said Graves
To Ford, after they had got back 10 civ
ilization, "how that Chinese friend oi
yours and his wife and child out there
in that desert are so fond If one anoth-
er:''
Graves. said Ford. "the word
love always seemed 10 me 10 bc sort
Of a sickly one for grown man to use
i'll talking To another, but do you know
that is what | would call that case? l
don't think I'd say fond "
II don't understand it ut all. " Graves
observed
well. You know there's no rule for
that kind of thing, old man. Love is
something You cant cipher ont like
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