CHAPTER VI.
EVE AT HEART'S DESIRE _How the Said Eve arrived on the Same Stage with Eastern Capital, to the Interest of All, and the Embarrassment of Some._ The sun drew on across the enchanted valley and began to sink toward the rim of the distant Baxter Peak.

The tremendous velvet robes of the purple evening shadows dropped slowly down upon the majestic shoulders of Carrizo, guardian of the valley.

A delicious kindness came into the air, sweet, although no flower was in all that land, and soft, though this was far from any sea, unless it were the waters immeasurably deep beneath this sun-dried soil.

There was no cloud even at the falling of the sun, but the gun had no harshness in his glow.

There was a blue and purple mystery over all the world, and calm and sweetness and strength came down as it were a mantle.