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B. M. Bower. Lonesome Land
Lonesome Land
Table of Contents
Author of “Chip, of the Flying U,” etc. With Four Illustrations (not included) By Stanley L. Wood
CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL OF VAL
CHAPTER II. WELL-MEANT ADVICE
CHAPTER III. A LADY IN A TEMPER
CHAPTER IV. THE “SHIVAREE”
CHAPTER V. COLD SPRING RANCH
CHAPTER VI. MANLEY'S FIRE GUARD
CHAPTER VII. VAL'S NEW DUTIES
CHAPTER VIII. THE PRAIRIE FIRE
CHAPTER IX. KENT TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER X. DESOLATION
CHAPTER XI. VAL'S AWAKENING
CHAPTER XII. A LESSON IN FORGIVENESS
CHAPTER XIII. ARLINE GIVES A DANCE
CHAPTER XIV. A WEDDING PRESENT
CHAPTER XV. A COMPACT
CHAPTER XVI. MANLEY'S NEW TACTICS
CHAPTER XVII. VAL BECOMES AN AUTHOR
CHAPTER XVIII. VAL'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIX. KENT'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XX. A BLOTCHED BRAND
CHAPTER XXI. VAL DECIDES
CHAPTER XXII. A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER XXIII. CAUGHT!
CHAPTER XXIV. RETRIBUTION
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B. M. Bower
Published by Good Press, 2022
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He was intensely proud of his name, and his pleasure was almost pathetic when one pronounced it without curtailment in his presence. His skinniness was also a matter of pride. And when you realize that he was an indefatigable gossip, and seemed always to be riding at large, gathering or imparting trivial news, you should know fairly well Polycarp Jenks.
“I see Man Fleetwood's might' near sober enough to git married,” Polycarp began, coming up to the two and leaning a sharp elbow upon the bar beside Kent. “By granny, gitting married'd sober anybody! Dinner time he was so drunk he couldn't find his mouth. I met him up here a little ways just now, and he was so sober he remembered to pay me that ten I lent him t' other day—he-he! Open up a bottle of pop, James.
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