"It would never be the same, with dad gone," said Jim. "Even if your father were alive, Jimmy, it couldn't be the same," answered Pen. "It's just that the thought of the old house will always renew your old instincts, Still. You can't return Exham's old sweet days to it. But Exham has done its work, I believe, out here on this Project." Pen's smile was very sweet in the starlight. Jim put both his hands on her shoulders. "Do you love me, dear?" he asked. Pen looked up into his eyes long and earnestly. "I always have, Still Jim," she said. "Do you want to know how I love you? Oh, sweetheart, I have so little to offer you!" he went on, brokenly, without waiting for Pen's answer, "except abiding love and passionate love and adoring love! And you are so very beautiful, Penelope. I've hungered for you for a long, long time, dear. Bitter, bitter nights and days up on the Makon and hopeless nights and days here on the Cabillo." His hands tightened on her shoulders. "Did you come back to me, sweetheart?" "Still," whispered Pen, "I missed you so! I had to come back." Then Jim drew Pen to him and folded her close in his strong arms and laid his lips to hers in a long kiss. And the flag fluttered lightly behind them and the desert wind whispered above their heads: "O yahee! O yahai! Sweet as arrow weed in spring!" * * * * * POPULAR COPYRIGHT NOVELS AT MODERATE PRICES Ask Your Dealer for a Complete List of A. L. Burt Company's Popular Copyright Fiction ~Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The.~ By Frank L. Packard. ~Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.~ By A. Conan Doyle. ~Affinities, and Other Stories.~ By Mary Roberts Rinehart. ~After House, The.~ By Mary Roberts Rinehart. ~Against the Winds.~ By Kate Jordan. ~Ailsa Paige.~ By Robert W. Chambers. ~Also Ran.~ By Mrs. Baillie Reynolds. ~Amateur Gentleman, The.~ By Jeffery Farnol. ~Anderson Crow, Detective.~ By George Barr McCutcheon. ~Anna, the Adventuress.~ By E. Phillips Oppenheim. ~Anne's House of Dreams.~ By L. M. Montgomery. ~Anybody But Anne.~ By Carolyn Wells. ~Are All Men Alike, and The Lost Titian.~ By Arthur Stringer. ~Around Old Chester.~ By Margaret Deland. ~Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist.~ By John T. McIntyre. ~Ashton-Kirk, Investigator.~ By John T. McIntyre. ~Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent.~ By John T. McIntyre. ~Ashton-Kirk, Special Detective.~ By John T. McIntyre. ~Athalie.~ By Robert W. Chambers. ~At the Mercy of Tiberius.~ By Augusta Evans Wilson. ~Auction Block, The.~ By Rex Beach. ~Aunt Jane of Kentucky.~ By Eliza C. Hall. ~Awakening of Helena Richie.~ By Margaret Deland. ~Bab: a Sub-Deb.~ By Mary Roberts Rinehart. ~Bambi.~ By Marjorie Benton Cooke. ~Barbarians.~ By Robert W. Chambers. ~Bar 20.~ By Clarence E. Mulford. ~Bar 20 Days.~ By Clarence E. Mulford. ~Barrier, The.~ By Rex Beach. ~Bars of Iron, The.~ By Ethel M. Dell. ~Beasts of Tarzan, The.~ By Edgar Rice Burroughs. ~Beckoning Roads.~ By Jeanne Judson.