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A Vendetta of the Hills. Willis George Emerson
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isbn 4064066152987
Автор произведения Willis George Emerson
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Willis George Emerson
A Vendetta of the Hills
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066152987
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III—Feminine Attractions
CHAPTER VIII—A Letter from San Quentin
CHAPTER X—The Home of the Recluse
CHAPTER XVI—Pierre Luzon Returns
CHAPTER XXII—Underqround Wonders
CHAPTER XXIII—The Unexpected Visitor
CHAPTER XXIV—In a Tight Corner
CHAPTER XXVII—Among the Old Oaks
CHAPTER XXVIII—The Prize Winner
CHAPTER XXX—Don Manuel Appears
CHAPTER XXXI—Shadows of the Past
CHAPTER XXXIV—Heart Searchings
CHAPTER XXXV—At Comanche Point
CHAPTER XXXVII—The Dawn of Comprehension
CHAPTER XXXVIII—Exit Leach Sharkey
CHAPTER XXXIX—The Fight on the Cliff
CHAPTER XLI—Beneath the Precipice
CHAPTER I—Guadalupe
IT was a June morning in mid-California. The sun was just rising over the rim of the horizon, dissipating the purple haze of dawn and bathing in golden sunshine a great valley spread out like a parchment scroll. It was a rural scene of magnificent grandeur—encircling mountains, rolling foothills, and then the vast expanse of plain dotted here and there with clumps of trees and clothed with luxuriant grasses.
Thousands of cattle were bestirring themselves from their slumbers—some sniffing the air and bellowing lowly, others paving the earth in an indifferent way, and all moving slowly toward one or other of the mountain streams that wound serpent-like through the valley, as if they deemed it proper to begin the day with a morning libation.
To the south, commanding a narrow pass that pierced the Tehachapi mountain range, stood old Fort Tejon, dismantled now and partly in ruins, picturesque if no longer formidable—a romantic relic of old frontier