The Heart of Thunder Mountain
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Edfrid A. Bingham. The Heart of Thunder Mountain
CHAPTER I. THE FORBIDDEN PASTURE
CHAPTER II. THE ROAD TO PARADISE
CHAPTER III. SETH HUNTINGTON’S OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER IV. THE HIGHEST BIDDER
CHAPTER V “HE SHALL TELL ME!”
CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF THE SCAR
CHAPTER VII. THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAN
CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF HER STRATAGEM
CHAPTER IX. HEARTS INSURGENT
CHAPTER X. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
CHAPTER XI. AVALANCHE
CHAPTER XII. SUNNYSIDES
CHAPTER XIII. HILLYER’S DILEMMA
CHAPTER XIV. COALS OF FIRE
CHAPTER XV. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XVI. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CHAPTER XVII. INTERLUDE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHALLENGE OF THE BRUTE
CHAPTER XIX. SMYTHE’S LAST BUDGET
CHAPTER XX “THE TRAIL HELD TRUE”
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE HOLLOW OF THE STORM
CHAPTER XXII. THE NARROW PASSAGE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MIRACLE
CHAPTER XXIV. HAIG’S ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XXV. DIANA
CHAPTER XXVI. THE SNOW
CHAPTER XXVII. THE VOICE IN THE HURRICANE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE MAN WHO DID NOT FORGET
CHAPTER XXIX. GHOSTS
CHAPTER XXX. THE LAMP RELIGHTED
CHAPTER XXXI. SANGRE DE CRISTO
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The gap in the fence remained exactly as it had been when it invited her to adventure. But now she halted there, dismounted, and picked up the end of a wire that lay trailing on the ground. With new-found interest she examined the fracture, and stared at it in wonder. Dropping it, and kneeling excitedly in the grass, she searched another, and still another wire, and with the same result. Even to her unpractised eye the facts were plain: the four wires had not been broken; they had been cleanly cut, and very recently, as shown by the absence of rust on the severed ends. By whom? And why? Seth Huntington, Haig had said. Impossible! Absurd! True, she had heard Seth denouncing him; Claire also; and without knowing the cause of the feud, or caring, she had learned that Huntington and Haig were bitterly at odds about something,–cattle, she thought, or was it land? But that Seth could have stooped to the low trick implied in these cut wires! And yet–
She looked down the half-made road by which Haig had disappeared. It was quite empty now, save for Tuesday and herself. Nor was there sight of man or beast in all the valley. Haig’s cattle, like Seth’s and the other ranchmen’s, were grazing in the summer pastures, no doubt in little shut-in valleys far up among the pines yonder, where the violet mists were deepening.
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“Philip Haig!” she murmured.
“You know him?”
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