Arizona -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Western stories
Jane came toward them, leading both horses. “Dear friends, I am happy.
To-day I bury all regrets. Of the past I shall remember only--my riders
of the purple sage.”
Venters smiled his gladness. “And you--Lassiter--what shall you
remember?” he queried.
The old gun-man looked at Jane and then at his clawlike hands and then
at Fay. His eyes lost their shadow and began to twinkle.
“Wal, I rolled a stone once, but I reckon now thet time Wrangle--”
“Lassiter, I said you dreamed that race. Wrangle never beat the blacks,”
interrupted Venters.... “And you, Fay, what shall you remember?”
“Surprise Valley,” replied Fay, dreamily.
“And you--Shefford?”
Shefford shook his head. For him there could never be one memory only.
In his heart there would never change or die memories of the wild
uplands, of the great towers and walls, of the golden sunsets on the
cañon ramparts, of the silent, fragrant valleys where the cedars and
the sago-lilies grew, of those starlit nights when his love and faith
awoke, of grand and lonely Nonnezoshe, of that red, sullen, thundering,
mysterious Colorado River, of a wonderful Indian and a noble Mormon--of
all that was embodied for him in the meaning of the rainbow trail.
THE END
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rainbow Trail, by Zane Grey
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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