with his leather wrist-bands shining from use, and his boots worn through on the stirrup side, he l...
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inaccessible corner. Going back a little way, he leaped the stream and headed toward the southern w...
"I reckon so." Lassiter paused, and for the thousandth time in her presence moved his black sombrer...
in the Mormon Elder's brain, and had been accomplished through his orders--revived in Venters a mem...
scintillating eyes. "It's pretty," said Bess. "How tame! I thought snakes always ran." "No. Even ...
she swayed toward Venters. "Bess, I'll not go again," he said, catching her. She leaned against hi...
Cottonwoods; they always had gold; but of late the amount gambled away and drunk and thrown away in...
Low whines came up from below. "Here! Come, Whitie--Ring," he repeated, this time sharply. Then fo...
they had come to soften in hatred. At any time this work called for a clearness of mind that preclu...
shall not have killed a woman. But--for your own sake, too--" A terrible bitterness darkened her ey...
sacrificed as you're goin' to be....No, I reckon you an' me can't be friends on such terms." In he...
of the valley to the eastern rise of ground and there waited the coming of the herd. Presently, as ...
doubts of fear. "Oh, why don't you marry Tull and be one of us? "But, Mary, I don't love Tull," sa...
and my God are the same." CHAPTER VIII. SURPRISE VALLEY Back in that strange canyon, which Venters...
ungloved hand sought the wound, and pressed so hard that her wrist half buried itself in her bosom....