The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-28
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There. sitting. she pillo red his head
upon her la and bend my over him.
made her - an additional shelter TO
him from the swirling clouds OF dust
froui the insensibility induced 1y
that blow upon his temple. the man
passed quietly Into slumbcrs of pro-
found physical exhaustion.
And for hours on end Judith nurs -
him there. scare daring to move save
to minister to his needs, bathing his
fevered brow and moistcning his
parched lips and throat with touch SO
gently measured that the sleeper never
awakened. and enduring without muir.
muir the pain and creeping numbs OF
limbs constrained 50 long to their un-
natural pose.
In the course of the first hour she
was once startled by the spectral vision
a horse that plodded up the arroyo,
bearing two riders on it's back
Weary Of the weight OF It's double
burden. 1t went slowly. and passed so
near 10 Judith that she was able to
recognize the features OF her sister
and Tom Barcus. And these. riding
with head bowed to the blasts. passed
from sight without either becoming
aware OF the ferce-eyed woman who
crouchcd there in the lee OF the ar
lay so still that he might have been
dead.
he sure she made never sign to
catch their attention
This hour, at least. was hers: Rose
would never grudgc it to her when 1t
had passed,
Within the next succeeding hour the
coppery light lost something OF its hot
briiiiancc. took on darker shade, and
then one darker still. Twilight stole
athwart the desert, turning it's heat to
chill. its light to violet. Then night
shut down upon the world, and tho wind
was fretghted with the penetrating
desert cold. Not before that hour did
the storm subside: tho last eddies OF
the dust. settling TO rest like ex-
clear sky OF stars and moonlight arch
ing over the weird home of the seven
devils OF solitude.
Growing more intense. the cold
eventually reused the sleeping man.
He stirred, moaned gently I'm his
sleep. and broke suddenly from Its
grasp with the wild look of one whose
soul has been astray in purgatory.
And hardly had his cyes Enclosed
and looked up into the eyes OF Judith
attending over him than he started up
ana out of her embrace, got INSTEAD
lily upon his feet and after moment
airy pause, watching her rise In turn
strobe away-or, rather, staggered--
with the gesture OF cXorcism.
Uncomplaining. hugging her new
born humility TO her with the ecstasy
of the anchorita his horse hair shirt
JUDITH followed him patiently, at a
little distance
He paid no heed to her: it is doubt
ful. inde"', IL he had as yet returned
altoEcth CT to his senses; she noticed
something mechanical In his actions,
rs though the subconscious mind were
the only pilot at the holm.
Not far from whore he had rested
there was break in the overhanging
wall of the arroyo. Through this he
scrambled painfully. reaching the level
of the desert only after cruel effort,
the unheeded woman at his heels.
\ brief pause there afforded both
time to regain their breath and sur
vey the desert for signs of asslstance:
il offered none. other than what they
might accomplish through their own
eNertions. For leagues In any quar-
ter it stretched without Il break other
than the black cleft of the arroyo.
cleaning blenchcd and deathly white
in the moonshine-Iike the face of a
frozen world. No living thing that
they could soc moved within the COM
pass Of their vision
Continued To-morrow)