Obeying him, she seated herself.

Presently Dan Anderson settled himself upon the other, and for a time they sat in silence.

The purple shadows had long ago deepened into half darkness, and as they looked up above the long, slow curve of old Carrizo, there rose the burnished silver of the wondrous moon of Heart's Desire.

The bare and barren valley was softened and glorified into a strange, half-ghostly beauty.

The earth has few scenes more beautiful than Heart's Desire at moonlight.