He had just ridden out of the grain on the same side of the chasm as herself.
"But you seem to have got over," she said bluntly.
"Yes, but it was further up the field.

I reckoned that the split might be deeper but not so broad in the rock outcrop over there than in the adobe here.

I found it so and jumped it." He looked as if he might--alert, intelligent, and self-contained.

He lingered a moment, and then continued:-- "I'm afraid you must have been badly shaken and a little frightened up there before the chimneys came down ?" "No," she was glad to say briefly, and she believed truthfully, "I wasn't frightened.

I didn't even know it was an earthquake." "Ah!" he reflected, "that was because you were a stranger.