Yonder he now could see the three bare cottonwoods, with the low adobe house near by where he and Dave had lived and laboured at the surveys for the project.

The bones of his dog Mike, too, rested there under the ground.

This brought to mind the meeting with Louise upon the road--and it was Louise to whom at this moment he was going.

He began to urge Dick to greater efforts.

Once on a stretch of road, bare and wind-swept, he pushed him into a gallop.