The sun grew hot.

And it was noon, almost, when she reached the point where she cut off the trail to the left.

Thereafter, with the monuments standing ever higher, and the distance perceptibly lessening, the minutes passed less tediously.
At length she reached the zone of lofty rocks, and found them different, how, she could not tell.

She rode down among them, and was glad when she saw the huge mittens--her landmarks.

At last she espied the green-bordered wash and the few cedar-trees.