the dark eyes, and caught the glitter of the firelight on a revolver in
her lowered hand.

"What did you expect to find?"

"I hardly knew," he explained lamely; "we stumbled on this hut by
accident. I didn't know there was a cabin in all this valley."

"Then you are not here for any purpose? to meet with any one?"

"No; we were lost, and had gone into camp up above, when we discovered
your light."

"Where do you come from?"

Keith hesitated just an instant, yet falsehood was never easy for him, and
he saw no occasion for any deceit now.

"Carson City."

"What brought you here?"

"We started for the 'Bar X' Ranch down below, on the Canadian; got caught
in a sand-storm, and then just drifted. I do not know within twenty miles
of where we are."

She drew a deep breath of unconcealed relief.

"Are you alone?"