The country became rough and broken almost at once.  The trail led up and down through draws and arroyos.  There was little verdure save cactus and, when the sun was fully up, Enoch began to realize that a strenuous day was before him.  The spring boasted a pepper tree, a lovely thing of delicate foliage, gazing at itself in the mirrored blue of the spring.  Enoch allowed the horse to drink its fill, then he unrolled the blankets and clothing and dropped them into the water below the little falls that gushed over the rocks, anchoring them with stones.  After this, awkwardly, but recalling more and more clearly his camping lore, he prepared a crude breakfast.

He sat long at this meal.  His head felt a little light from the lack of sleep and he was physically weary.  But he could not rest.  For days a jingling couplet had been running through his mind: 

  “Rest is not quitting this busy career. 
  Rest is the fitting of self to one’s sphere.”

Enoch muttered this aloud, then smiled grimly to himself.

“That’s the idea!” he added.  “There’s a bad spot somewhere in my philosophy that’ll break me yet.  Well, we’ll see if I can locate it.”

The sun was climbing high and the shade of the pepper tree was grateful.  The spring murmured for a few feet beyond the last quivering shadow of the feathery leaves, then was swallowed abruptly by the burning sand.  Enoch lifted his tired eyes.  Far on every side lay the uneven, rock strewn desert floor, dotted with cactus and greasewood.  To the east, vivid against the blue sky, rose a solitary mountain peak, a true purple in color, capped with snow.  To the north, a green black shadow was etched against the horizon.  Except for the slight rustle of the pepper tree, the vague murmur of the water, the silence was complete.

“It’s not a calming atmosphere,” thought Enoch, “as I remember the Canyon to have been.  It’s feverish and restless.  But I’ll give it a try.  For to-day, I’ll not think.  I’ll concern myself entirely with getting to this Navajo camp.  First of all, I’ll dry the blankets and clothing.”

He had pulled off his tweed coat some time before.  Now he hung his vest on the pepper tree and went about his laundry work.  He draped blankets and garments over the greasewood, then moved by a sudden impulse, undressed himself and lay down under the tiny falls.  The water, warmed by its languid trip through the pool above, was refreshing only in its cleansing quality.  But Enoch, lying at length in the sand, the water trickling ceaselessly over him, felt his taut muscles relax and a great desire to sleep came upon him.  But he was still too close to the railroad and possible discovery to allow himself this luxury.  By the time he had finished his bath the overalls were dry and the blue flannel shirt enough so for him to risk donning it.  He rolled up his tweed suit and tied it to the saddle, fastened the blankets on in an awkward bunch, the cooking utensils dangling anywhere, the canteen suspended from the pommel.  Then he smiled at his reflection in the morning pool.