Then, as abruptly, as mysteriously as he had come, Vanamee disappeared.

Presley awoke one morning to find him gone.

Thus, it had been with Vanamee for a period of sixteen years.

He lived his life in the unknown, one could not tell where--in the desert, in the mountains, throughout all the vast and vague South-west, solitary, strange.

Three, four, five years passed.