The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-27

ty feet below, but two years as sole III
habitant OF the canyon had made him
wary A cautious survey filled him
with surprise; a Navajo girl was APP
preaching down stream, alone and on
horseback.
She was leaning low in the saddle,
her eyes running along the edge OF the
bank as if intently in search OF some
thing. From the slim fingers of one
small brown hand dangled several
bulbs, the damp earth still clinging to
them.
Roughton waited silently till the
strange rider was almost beneath the
dump on which he stood, then leaning
over it's edge called gently:
"Buenas dias."
The girl brought her pony to stand
still with quick pull. and sat staring
aloft, her bosom under the soft full
blouse of red calico rising and falling
in startled, hurried breaths. Her eyes
were anXiously scanning his bearded,
sweat-seamed face Her feet, in pale
tan moccasins of softest cured buck
skin, intricately beaded, were trembling
against the rudely Whitfield, wooden
stirrups.
1t was growing late The sun had
gone down, and the night already gave
promise of being of clear and frosty
cold.
You're tired-you need something to
eat?" asked the miner kindly.
The dark, interminable depths of the
girls eyes were still bent on him-a
thoughtful, searching scrutiny. But
at last she smiled family as if salts
fed, and then Roughton saw the real
wanness of her face.
My father Sick she explained;
him hogan long way. This make him
Ac no 10 CHI hn1 ha
bulbs of wild tulip. 81 ride all day. l
ind-two-three-that' all" Her
voice was sweet and curously plaintive.
At the pleasant sound, all at once
Roughton was astonished to feel the
throbs of his thirty-five-year-old heart
quicken to furious beating against
the curve of his strong ribs
"Old fool!" mathematical he with
disguised shrug of his fine shoulders.
Turning to the girl he said earnestly,
hungry and tired. Come. l give you supp
He Slipped down over the sliding dun
side, and laid light, OBTAINING hand on
bit. Without word of protest the wea
fered him to lead the way down the cal
low. roughly-built cabin.
You stay here, he urged compassions
lifted her to the ground. For an instant
unsteadily with fatigue. then followed q
dian fashion, into the cabin, where Roug
work to build the fire and prepare supper
Cut of doors under the clear sparkle {
the frost began to creep out of the grou
ling the rocks and cliffs with delicate sill
Within the rude room the fire shed rut
light in which Roughton moved alertly,
his mnistrations.
After supper the girl stood irresolute
table. Then with sudden movement
wrapping the brilliant plaid shawl abou
over the glossy curtain of smooth blacl
about her slight, supple shoulders.
Roughton entered a vehement protest
You stay" he urged. Tomorrow l give
mans medicine. 1t make your father we
The girl meditated pensively with pre-
ion. her small feet moving restlessly in
skin moccasins Perhaps she found it
to have a resolute male deciding for he
cred and put up her pretty brown hand
wind the shawl.
Roughton was amazed and not wholly
the strength of the emotion that was II
ing him; he who prided himself on beil
and independent. A slender girl-and
different from his own-had come slippil
CANYON with the twilight, and suddenly
found himself transformed from a care-f
nal to being consumed with a passion
to keep near him the strange bit OF fen
The girl VS. very weary. The bunk
ner. heaped with tousled furs and bl
most inviting. With final sigh OF dee
unwrapped the shawl.
Roughton smiled and nodded his hea
same time giving an encouraging gest1
the couch; then he fell joyfully to work