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B. M. Bower. The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
Charming Billy Has a Visitor
CHAPTER II
Prune Pie and Coon-can
CHAPTER III
Charming Billy Has a Fight
CHAPTER IV
Canned
CHAPTER V
The Man From Michigan
CHAPTER VI
"That's My Dill Pickle!"
CHAPTER VII
"Till Hell's a Skating-rink."
CHAPTER VIII
Just a Day-dream
CHAPTER IX
The "Double-Crank."
CHAPTER X
The Day We Celebrate
CHAPTER XI
"When I Lift My Eyebrows This Way."
CHAPTER XII
Dilly Hires a Cook
CHAPTER XIII
Billy Meets the Pilgrim
CHAPTER XIV
A Winter at the Double-Crank
CHAPTER XV
The Shadow Falls Lightly
CHAPTER XVI
Self-defense
CHAPTER XVII
The Shadow Darkens
CHAPTER XVIII
When the North Wind Blows
CHAPTER XIX
"I'm Not Your Wife Yet!"
CHAPTER XX
The Shadow Lies Long
CHAPTER XXI
The End of the Double-Crank
CHAPTER XXII
Settled In Full
CHAPTER XXIII
Oh, Where Have You Been, Charming Billy?
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B. M. Bower
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The storm had passed and the air was still and biting cold. The eastern sky was stained red and purple with the rising sun, and beneath the feet of their horses the snow creaked frostily. So they rode down the coulée and then up a long slope to the top, struck the trail and headed straight north with a low line of hills for their goal. And in the hour and a half of riding, neither spoke a dozen words.
At the door of her own home Billy left her, and gathered up the reins of the Pilgrim's horse. "Well, good-by. Oh, that's all right—it wasn't any trouble at all," he said huskily when she tried to thank him, and galloped away.
