ious laugh.

"Bauer saved me! That sneaking cur! Why, he pushed me over the cliff!
I'll get even with him! Butting into my affairs! I won't stand for it.
His father and mother------"

But Helen could not bear any more. She had cowered down when Van Shaw
spoke the first word. Now she whispered to her mother, "Take me out,
mother, I cannot bear it."

Clifford simply said to Mrs. Van Shaw:

"We had better go, Mrs. Van Shaw. If you and the nurse need any help,
call us."

He took hold of one end of the litter and Mrs. Douglas took the other
and they carried Helen out. Before they were out of hearing, Van Shaw
was cursing and swearing in a torrent of words that made Helen cover her
ears as she lay back on the cot sobbing from the nervous strain she had
been bearing.

Clifford and Paul and the Indians finished the work of breaking up camp
and in half an hour the party was ready to leave Oraibi. Esther had
asked Clifford to wait until she went over to enquire if she could do
any more for Mrs. Van Shaw, when she met her coming out of the house.

"No, there is nothing you can do," she said, in answer to Mrs. Douglas's
inquiry. "Ross was always that violent whenever he had a fever. Ever
since he was little, he has been the same. It is dreadful what words he
will use when he is out of his head. But I cannot let Mr. Clifford go
until I know the truth about the German, Bauer. If he saved Ross, Mr.
Van Shaw would not forgive me if--if we didn't do something for him.
But I have been so confused during all this dreadful affair that I
haven't really known how it all happened. I want to see Mr. Bauer, if
you can wait a little."

Mrs. Van Shaw was agitated and tearful. Esther could easily see in her a
naturally good natured, kind hearted woman, with a superficial
education, who had ruined her children by unlimited indulgence of all
their selfish habits, A woman who had been brought up to believe that
the greatest of all things in the world is success in getting money and
ingenuity in spending it. With all the rest she was a woman of some
direct force of character which, in times of crisis as at the present
moment, asserted itself with considerable positiveness.

She came up to the wagons and spoke to Clifford first.

"Mr. Clifford, before you go, I want to know the truth about the rescue
of Ross from that fall. I know you told me about Mr. Bauer, but I wasn't
clear about it. Mr. Van Shaw would never forgive me if I didn't get t