"They're gone, up to both knees now," said he, gloomily.

"The finish ain't far off.

You all come on over across the _arroyo_ with me, and if you can find a sign showin' how this thing happened, I'll make you a present of the whole shootin' match." It was thus that Curly, Dan Anderson, Doc Tomlinson, McKinney, and Learned Counsel rose and adjourned across the _arroyo_.

They found Suzanne and Arabella industriously carrying in aprons full of pinon chips for the kitchen stove.
The clean-swept room at which the visitors entered was the neatest one in Heart's Desire.

The tall, narrow fireplace of clay in the corner of the other room was swept clean, spick and span.