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_A man came out of the sky and they took him and hanged him from / the nearest tree thinking that they lynched a devil. But perhaps / they crucified a saint instead -- there in the beauty of the desert. / And what place could be more worthy of being called a second / Calvary? _
It was a typical blazing Arizona day. Pitiless sun distorting the desert and making Sage Bend look like a toy town off in the distance. Sage Bend and the surrounding desert were bone-dry, furnace-hot, and generally depressing, but there were compensations. Buck liked it and Biddy liked it because it was a country where a small crippled girl and a tiny burro could go almost anywhere they pleased without danger.