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And it's led me to love and faith!" Hours afterward Shefford walked alone to and fro under the bridge. His trouble had given place to serenity. But this night of nights he must live out wide-eyed to its end. The moon had long since crossed the streak of star-fired blue above and the canyon was black in shadow.
He prayed to that nameless thing outside, of which the rocks and the sand, the spiked cactus and the ragged lava, the endless waste, with its vast star-fired mantle, were but atoms. He prayed for mercy to a woman for happiness to her child. Both mother and daughter were close to him then. Time and distance were annihilated. He had faith he saw into the future.
Objects were singularly visible, even at long range, and seemed magnified. In the west, where the afterglow of sunset lingered over the dark, ragged, spruce-speared horizon-line, there was such a transparent golden line melting into vivid star-fired blue that Helen could only gaze and gaze in wondering admiration.
Nonnezoshe needed life, wild life, life of its millions of years and here stood the dark and silent Indian. Long afterward I walked there alone, to and fro, under the bridge. The moon had long since crossed the streak of star-fired blue above, and the canyon was black in shadow.
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