Adam strode toward it,gradually getting higher and
nearer through the rock-strewn field.
Perhaps if you watch him awhile you can tell. We
all have to be excused sometimes, said Adam, deliberately.
Different here was it from the place miles below
where Adamhad crossed. But I didnt want any such work done round my
camp.
Now, will you help me carry in the breakfast? Adam
followed her inside and saw that she marked his lofty height. Im crossing Death
Valley and I thought Id call on you.
Adam was amazed to realise the day wasfar
spent.
Sir, I thank you again, she replied, her voice
thrilling richly. The shadowed and thick light hid theravages that had by day
impaired her beauty. Years ago my life was ruined, said Adam, slowly. It seemed to
Adam to be theface of a Lucifer whose fiendish passions were now restrained by
sleep.
Afterall, just the sound of a kind voice makes me a
coward.
That might well have been due to hiseternal hope.
Adamsquick glance took this in, and then the two narrow beds of blankets raisedon
brush cots.
Adamsquick glance took this in, and then the two
narrow beds of blankets raisedon brush cots.
I cant make Death Valley habitable for you, but I
can lessen thehardships. It was necessary to findnarrow places in these and leap
across. Allwas gloom and shadow below, with black walls rising to star-fretted skyas
blue as indigo.
She left him to the deepening gloom and the dying
camp fire.
She left him to the deepening gloom and the dying
camp fire. Of whatavail the strong arm, the desert-taught fierceness to
survive?
He looked a man who should have been in the prime
oflife.
This belt was steep and fan shaped,spreading at the
bottom. On all sides the mountainsstood up dim and obscure and distant in a strange
haze. I miss so unforgetably theluxuries of life.
Allwas gloom and shadow below, with black walls
rising to star-fretted skyas blue as indigo. Adam, rising abreast of the stone wall
he was building, fixed hispiercing eyes upon this man. He was hot and wet; his eyes
smarted and his feetburned. Adam followed her inside and saw that she marked his
lofty height.