Desert Dust

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Edwin L. Sabin. Desert Dust

Desert Dust

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

A PAIR OF BLUE EYES

CHAPTER II

TO BETTER ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER III

I RISE IN FAVOR

CHAPTER IV

I MEET FRIENDS

CHAPTER V

ON GRAND TOUR

CHAPTER VI

“HIGH AND DRY”

CHAPTER VII

I GO TO RENDEZVOUS

CHAPTER VIII

I STAKE ON THE QUEEN

CHAPTER IX

I ACCEPT AN OFFER

CHAPTER X

I CUT LOOSE

CHAPTER XI

WE GET A “SUPER”

CHAPTER XII

DANIEL TAKES POSSESSION

CHAPTER XIII

SOMEONE FEARS

CHAPTER XIV

I TAKE A LESSON

CHAPTER XV

THE TRAIL NARROWS

CHAPTER XVI

I DO THE DEED

CHAPTER XVII

THE TRAIL FORKS

CHAPTER XVIII

VOICES IN THE VOID

CHAPTER XIX

I STAKE AGAIN

CHAPTER XX

THE QUEEN WINS

CHAPTER XXI

WE WAIT THE SUMMONS

CHAPTER XXII

STAR SHINE

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Edwin L. Sabin

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“North Platte!” She laughed merrily. “Dear me, don’t mention North Platte—not in the same breath with Benton, or even Cheyenne. A town of hayseeds and dollar-a-day clerks whose height of sport is to go fishing in the Platte! A young man like you would die of ennui in North Platte. Julesburg was a good town while it lasted. People lived, there; and moved on because they wished to keep alive. What is life, anyway, but a constant shuffle of the cards? Oh, I should have laughed to see you in North Platte.” And laugh she did. “You might as well be dead underground as buried in one of those smug seven-Sabbaths-a-week places.”

Her free speech accorded ill with what I had been accustomed to in womankind; and yet became her sparkling eyes and general dash.

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