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Arthur Preston Hankins. The Heritage of the Hills
The Heritage of the Hills
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
AT HALFMOON FLAT
CHAPTER II
PETER DREW'S LAST MESSAGE
CHAPTER III
B FOR BOLIVIO
CHAPTER IV
THE FIRST CALLER
CHAPTER V
"AND I'LL HELP YOU!"
CHAPTER VI
ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS
CHAPTER VII
LILAC SPODUMENE
CHAPTER VIII
POISON OAK RANCH
CHAPTER IX
NANCY FLEET'S WINDFALL
CHAPTER X
JESSAMY'S HUMMINGBIRD
CHAPTER XI
CONCERNING SPRINGS AND SHOWUT POCHE-DAKA
CHAPTER XII
THE POISON OAKERS RIDE
CHAPTER XIII
SHINPLASTER AND CREEDS
CHAPTER XIV
HIGH POWER
CHAPTER XV
THE FIRE DANCE
CHAPTER XVI
A GUEST AT THE RANCHO
CHAPTER XVII
THE GIRL IN RED
CHAPTER XVIII
SPIES
CHAPTER XIX
CONTENTIONS
CHAPTER XX
"WAIT!"
CHAPTER XXI
"WHEN WE MEET AGAIN!"
CHAPTER XXII
THE WATCHMAN OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER XXIII
THE QUESTION
CHAPTER XXIV
IN THE DEER PATH
CHAPTER XXV
THE ANSWER
THE END
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Arthur Preston Hankins
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"It's a lonely, deserted place, and the road to it is fierce. Several families lived down in there thirty years ago; but the places have been abandoned long since, and all the folks gone God knows where. It's a pretty country if a fella likes trees and rocks and things, and wild and rough; but down in that cañon it's too cold for pears and such fruit—and that's about all we raise on these rocky hills.
"Old Tabor Ivison homesteaded your place. He's been dead matter o' fifteen years. Died down there. For years he'd lived there all by 'imself. Good old man. Asked for little in life—and got it.
