She stood motionless watching the rider and the empty saddle descend the hill. She stood with the soft light of the evening sky making a halo about her, and saw him ride silently down into the shadow of the valley. Was it perhaps to him “the valley of the shadow,” for what was there left in life for him now except death? Once he turned and saw the girl still standing on the crest enfolded in a flood of crimson light. As he looked, it faded swiftly into purple—and then to grey. He lifted his sombrero and rode on, on to the foot of the hill, and then turned once more. With an anguished cry she started forward. “I cannot go—I cannot leave all this. I cannot live without you now! Henry—Henry West! _I—have forgotten!_” * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: Punctuation has been corrected silently. Hyphenation has been standardized. As in the original, the Table of Contents lists Chapter XII as beginning on page 97. Please note that in actuality, the chapter begins on page 98. Throughout the book, “breed”, ’breed and breed are used as abbreviated versions of half-breed. These variations have been retained. Page 68, “nonchalent” changed to “nonchalant”. (She brushed her wet cheeks with her sleeve in her haste to appear nonchalant to the approaching horsemen, whom she could hear hastening after her.) Page 69, “begrimmed” changed to “begrimed”. (One hand tightly clasped a prayer book, while the other tried in vain to lift the already begrimed cassock out of the dust.) Page 110, “wierd” changed to “weird”. (The Indians had flung off their blankets, and with wild and weird shouts, plunged their horses into the water.) Page 185, “kinnikinnic” changed to “kinnikinick” for consistency. (Every rock and stump was beautiful with its creeping wreath of kinnikinick, whose glossy foliage and large scarlet berries puts to shame the holly.) Page 211, the caption of the sunset illustration has been moved closer to its mention in the text. Page 216, “creepy” changed to “crepy”. (Pale yellow crepe, soft, silken, crepy, with knots and loops of brilliant orange-colored velvet.)