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As he had not worn spurs, he was not yet a knight. Guy entered the lists and met and conquered Prince Philaner, the Emperor's son, Duke Otto, Duke Ranier, and Duke Louvain. Guy took the prize offered with the exception of the hand of Blanche. "For my fair Phyllis alone I keep my love," he said. Guy went back to England and heard that a terrible dun-colored cow had appeared in Warwickshire.
From this elevation, he scanned the horizon on every side. Far off to the southwest was sweeping a dun-colored curtain the departing sand-storm, but that was all. Otherwise, the desert was unchanged from its previous aspect. "Let me hev a look at thet thar compass," said Pete, resuming a sitting posture once more. Jack extended his wrist. "The compass is all right, I know," he said confidently.
Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Then it was that Mr. Bob Topper's moment for action arrived.
Against the dark background of that distant ridge and upon the dun-colored flat along which the road meandered, the old corporal could just make out a number of dingy white objects mere specks bobbing and twinkling in the blazing sunshine. Nothing of the kind had been there when he looked before and he knew only too well what it meant.
The old romance which had warmed his days for him, the thoughts of Katharine which had painted every hour, were now made to appear foolish and enfeebled. He rose, and looked into the river, whose swift race of dun-colored waters seemed the very spirit of futility and oblivion. "In what can one trust, then?" he thought, as he leant there.
He left the house and in a few minutes reappeared from the direction of the barn, riding his dun-colored horse. He did not stop, but galloped down the valley, waving a hand in farewell which the boy answered. The day was nearly spent. The sun was low in the west, sliding down like a ball of gold toward the rim of the blue mountains. A stiff breeze had sprung up, driving the heat before it.
In Florence the nascent swan-feathers of Anne Champneys grew into perfect plumage. She was like a spirit new-born to another world, with all the dun-colored ties of a darker existence swept away, and only a residue of thought and feeling left of its former experience.
A dun-colored heap of trash at the foot of a sagebrush in the bight of the dry creek-bed below resolves itself into a very live-looking coyote which blinks yearningly at the unattainable venison on the knoll above, wistfully licks his chops and slinks evilly in the wake of the grouse broods.
Melissa got up and wandered toward the edge of the cañon, and Lysander, aroused from the plentitude of his recollections by her absence, completed his load and drove the dun-colored mule leisurely after her.
Defeat seemed to put a grim sort of resolution into his soul. Following faint clews, Ramsey made long walks into the country, toiling from ranch to ranch over the dun-colored, lonely hills, dogged, persistent, with lips set grimly. He was returning late one afternoon from one of these fruitless journeys. It was one of those strange days that come in all seasons at that altitude.
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