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Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston
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CHAPTER X

WHERE HEALTH BEGINS

In a little white cottage tent, at the end of a long row of minutely
similar, little white cottage tents, sat David and Carol in the early
evening of a day in May, looking wistfully out at the wide sweep of
gray mesa land, reaching miles away to the mountains, blue and solemn
in the distance.

"Do--do you feel better yet, David?" Carol asked at last, desperately
determined to break the menacing silence.

David drew his breath. "I can't seem to notice any difference yet," he
replied honestly. "It doesn't look much like Missouri, does it?"

"It is pretty,--very pretty," she said resolutely.

"Carol, be a good Presbyterian and tell the truth. Do you wish you had
gone home, to green and grassy Iowa?"

"David Duke, I am at home, and here is where I want to be and no place
else in the world. It is big and bleak and bare, but-- You are going
to get well, aren't you, David?"

"Of course I am, but give me time. Even Miracle Land can't transform
weakness to health in two hours."

"I must go over to the office. Mrs. Hartley said she wanted to give me
some instructions."
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