"One way or the other, it's done." He lifted her gently, attended her until at length she moved, stood--until at length he knew that she saw! She turned her face back from the ruin which had been her first vision of her new world, and looked into the eyes of the man who had given back to her eyes with which to see.

And he looked deep, deep into her own, grave and unsmiling.
She spoke to him at last.

"I can see," said she simply.
"I'm very glad," said he, trying to be as simple.

But he turned her away, giving her into Annie's arms.
"Look!" cried other voices.
A section of the side of the great U, running clear back to a seam which had formed in the dam face, slowly broke out and went down.

The water rose like a tide now, very rapidly, because the canyon itself, so narrow and so full of abrupt curves, made no adequate outlet for this augmented flood.