And I'm glad that this is so. If I can go on through life feeling that
you are serene and happy it will help me to keep my secret. Strange
that with every natural inclination within me to be otherwise, I should
be the custodian of ugly secrets; secrets that are only the uglier
because they are my own. It seems a sacrilegious thing to add my
beautiful love for you to the sinister collection. But it must be so.
"I am so glad that I am going to see you so soon after I emerge from
the Canyon. There will be much to tell you. I thought I knew men.
But I am learning them anew. And I thought I had a fair conception of
the wonders of the Colorado. Diana, it is beyond human imagination to
conceive or human tongue to describe."
Enoch had looked forward with eager pleasure to seeing the Canyon
snowbound. But he was doomed to disappointment. During the night the
snow turned to rain. The rain, in turn, ceased before dawn and the
camp woke to winding mists that whirled with the wind up and out of the
Canyon top. The going, during the morning, offered no great
difficulties. But toward noon, as the boats rounded a curve, a reef
presented itself with the water of the river boiling threateningly on
either side.
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