Chapter 10
RIDING THE RANGESTHE shepherds were home in the oasis that evening, and next day
the tragedy of the sheep was a thing of the past. No other
circumstance of Hare's four months with the Naabs had so affected
him as this swift inevitable sweeping away of the flock; nothing
else had so vividly told him the nature of this country of abrupt
heights and depths. He remembered August Naab's magnificent gesture
of despair; and now the man was cheerful again; he showed no sign
of his great loss. His tasks were many, and when one was done, he
went on to the next. If Hare had not had many proofs of this
Mormon's feeling he would have thought him callous. August Naab
trusted God and men, loved animals, did what he had to do with all
his force, and accepted fate. The tragedy of the
