The gold, a little food, saddle blankets, and Venters's guns were to compose the light outfit with which they would make the start.
"I love this beautiful place," said Bess.

"It's hard to think of leaving it." "Hard! Well, I should think so," replied Venters.

"Maybe--in years--" But he did not complete in words his thought that might be possible to return after many years of absence and change.
Once again Bess bade Venters farewell under the shadow of Balancing Rock, and this time it was with whispered hope and tenderness and passionate trust.

Long after he had left her, all down through the outlet to the Pass, the clinging clasp of her arms, the sweetness of her lips, and the sense of a new and exquisite birth of character in her remained hauntingly and thrillingly in his mind.

The girl who had sadly called herself nameless and nothing had been marvelously transformed in the moment of his avowal of love.