iver. Will you marry me there?"

"Yes--if you--love me," she whispered, going close to him.

Pan dropped both of the buckets, splashing water everywhere.

Arizonaland!

It was not only a far country attained, but another, strange and
beautiful. Siccane lay a white and green dot far over the purple sage.
The golden-walled mesas stood up, black fringed against the blue. In
the bold notches burned the red of autumn foliage. Valleys spread
between the tablelands. There was room for a hundred homesteads.
Pan's keen eye sighted only a few and they were farther on, green
squares in the gray. Down toward Siccane cattle made tiny specks on
the vast expanse. Square miles of bleached grass contended with the
surrounding slopes of sage, sweeping with slow graceful rise up to the
bases of the walls and mesas.

"Water! Grass! No fences!" exclaimed Pan's father, with a glad note
of renewed youth.

"Dad. Lucy. Look," replied Pan, pointing across the valley. "See
that first big notch in the wall? Thick with bright green? There's
water. And see the open canyon with the cedars scattered? What a
place for a ranch! It has been waiting for us all these years ...
That's where we'll homestead."

"Wal, pard, an' you, Louie--look over heah aways," drawled Blinky, with
long arm outstretched. "See the red circle wall, with the brook
shinin' down like a ribbon. Lookin' to the south! Warm in
winter--cool in summer. Shore's I was born in the West thet's the
homestead fer me."

The wagons rolled on behind wild horses that needed little driving.
Down the long winding open road across the valley! And so on into the
rich grass where no wheel track showed--on into the sage toward the
lonely beckoning walls.

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