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CHAPTER XIX I ‘THERE were her tracks, wind-blurred in the sanc. She must have come straight home, arriving be- fore he reached the high place. With dread br: entered the door, grateful for the half-darkness inside. She had got back into Navajo clothes moccasins, skirt, and sash, but her blouse wz: only pulled over the right shoulder, leaving th-= left arm and breast bare. Did she think —? He saw her as an enemy. ‘I am going away.’ ‘All right. But first pull this out; I am no- strong criough.” She held out her arm with the arrow through it. He stared at it, and it made him feel sick. He was frankly avoiding her face, but he knew that the blood was gone from beneath the bronze sur- face, leaving it yellow-white with a green tinge under it. He kept on looking at the arrow, his arrow, with his marks on it. “You must come out to the light.’ She rose with difficulty, steadying herself against the wall. He supported her to the door. The arrow had passed through the flesh of the

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