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Edward Marshall. In Old Kentucky
In Old Kentucky
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ILLUSTRATIONS
IN OLD KENTUCKY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
A mighty leap had carried them beyond the blazing barrier
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
"No man can cross this bridge, unless—unless—"
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
"Back! Back! I'm a-comin' with Queen Bess!"
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
"I'm standin' face to face with my own father's. murderer—Lem Lindsay"
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Edward Marshall, Charles Turner Dazey
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Having satisfied himself that no one, now, was near, and, therefore, that he was not watched, the unpleasantly mysterious old man went back to the work which evidently had brought him hither. With utmost care he moved about the place, scrutinizing outcropping rocks, and this, as they were everywhere, meant a minute examination of the land. In his hand he carried a small hammer, and, with this, now and then, after a careful visual examination of a rock, he knicked it, here and there, investigating carefully and even eagerly the scars he made, the bits of rock which were clipped off, now and then even looking at the latter through a magnifying glass, which he took for the purpose from a pocket of his vest.
She had watched these operations, fascinated, for, possibly, a full half hour, despite the discomfort of damp clothing, which had begun to chill her, when she saw signs of violent excitement on the old man's face and in his actions, after he had chipped a rock, from which he first had had to scrape a thin superstratum of light soil.
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