When the hard dusty gusts hit her, she found it absolutely necessary to shut her eyes.

At intervals less windy she opened them, and rode on, peering through the yellow gloom for the cabin.

Thus she got her eyes full of dust--an alkali dust that made them sting and smart.

The fiercer puffs of wind carried pebbles large enough to hurt severely.

Then the dust clogged her nose and sand got between her teeth.