All of this seems better so, because through it I am changed.

I might have lived on, a selfish clod!" Carley turned from the mountain kingdom and faced her future with the profound and sad and far-seeing look that had come with her lesson.

She knew what to give.

Sometime and somewhere there would be recompense.
She would hide her wound in the faith that time would heal it.

And the ordeal she set herself, to prove her sincerity and strength, was to ride down to Oak Creek Canyon.
Carley did not wait many days.