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Harold Bindloss. By Right of Purchase
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. BARROCK-HOLME
CHAPTER II. LELAND IS ROUSED TO PITY
CHAPTER III. PRESSURE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
CHAPTER IV. LELAND MAKES THE PLUNGE
CHAPTER V. NO ESCAPE
CHAPTER VI. THE PRAIRIE
CHAPTER VII. CARRIE MAKES HER VIEWS CLEAR
CHAPTER VIII. LELAND SEEKS DISTRACTION
CHAPTER IX. FARMERS IN COUNCIL
CHAPTER X. HOMICIDE
CHAPTER XI. SEEDTIME
CHAPTER XII. LELAND'S PROTEST
CHAPTER XIII. CARRIE ABASES HERSELF
CHAPTER XIV. THE OUTLAWS STRIKE BACK
CHAPTER XV. BENEFICENT RAIN
CHAPTER XVI. URMSTON SHOWS HIS PRUDENCE
CHAPTER XVII. CARRIE MAKES A COMPARISON
CHAPTER XVIII. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR
CHAPTER XIX. PRAIRIE HAY
CHAPTER XX. AN UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XXI. A WILLING SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XXII. HAIL
CHAPTER XXIII. GALLWEY'S ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XXIV. LELAND MAKES SURE
CHAPTER XXV. A PORTENTOUS LIGHT
CHAPTER XXVI. FIGHTING FIRE
CHAPTER XXVII. LELAND FEELS THE STRAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. CARRIE'S RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER XXIX. LELAND STRIKES BACK
CHAPTER XXX. HARVEST
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Harold Bindloss
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Leland looked at her, a slight flush in his grim face. "It would be almost indecent for several reasons, to say nothing of his age; but Miss Denham has surely a will of her own."
Though he seldom manifested the tenderness and pity in his nature until an opportunity for helpful action came his way, his face grew softer as he watched the pair. His life had of necessity been hard and lonely. Perhaps, in some degree at least, from ignorance of them, he had grown up with an impersonal, chivalrous respect for all women. Love as between man and woman was a thing still remote from him. On the desolate prairie, a woman was scarcely ever even seen. It was a man's country. As his eyes followed the strolling couple, he was conscious of a longing to offer the girl the protection of his strength against Aylmer.
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