Now a still more formidable decision was before
her and had to be faced. She glanced up at the tall, standing figure.
Knight was not looking at her. His eyes were on the desert landscape
flying past the windows.
"What I _want_ to do!" she echoed. "There's nothing in this world that
I want to do."
"Then"--and Knight did not take his eyes from the window--"why not
drift?"
"Drift?"
"Yes. To Texas. Oh, I know! I asked you that before, and you said you
wouldn't. But hasn't destiny decided? Would it have sent you these
thousands of miles with me unless it meant you to fight it out on those
lines? You've travelled far enough, side by side with me, to learn that a
man and a woman with only a thin wall between them can be as far apart as
if they were separated by a continent.
"Now, this minute, you've got to decide. It isn't _I_ who tell you so.
It's fate. Will you go on alone from the place we're coming to, or--will
you try the thin wall?"
CHAPTER XXIV
THE ANNIVERSARY
The girl felt as if some great flood were sweeping her off her feet. She
clutched mechanically at anything to save herself.
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