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Jackson Gregory. Desert Valley
CHAPTER I – A Bluebird’s Feather
CHAPTER II – Superstition Pool
CHAPTER III – Payment in Raw Gold
CHAPTER IV – In Desert Valley
CHAPTER V – The Good Old Sport
CHAPTER VI – The Youthful Heart
CHAPTER VII – Waiting for Moonrise
CHAPTER VIII – Poker and the Scientific Mind
CHAPTER IX – Helen Knew
CHAPTER X – A Warning and a Sign
CHAPTER XI – Seeking
CHAPTER XII – The Desert Supreme
CHAPTER XIII – A Son of the Solitudes
CHAPTER XIV – The Hate of the Hidden People
CHAPTER XV – The Golden Secret
CHAPTER XVI – Sanchia Schemes
CHAPTER XVII – Howard Holds the Gulch
CHAPTER XVIII – A Town is Born
CHAPTER XIX – Sanchia Persistent
CHAPTER XX – Two Friends and a Girl
CHAPTER XXI – Almost
CHAPTER XXII – The Professor Dictates
CHAPTER XXIII – The Will-o’-the-Wisp
CHAPTER XXIV – The Shadow
CHAPTER XXV – In the Open
CHAPTER XXVI – When Day Dawned
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The Desert
Over many wide regions of the south-western desert country of Arizona and New Mexico lies an eternal spell of silence and mystery. Across the sand-ridges come many foreign things, both animate and inanimate, which are engulfed in its immensity, which frequently disappear for all time from the sight of men, blotted out like a bird which flies free from a lighted room into the outside darkness. As though in compensation for that which it has taken, the desert from time to time allows new marvels, riven from its vitals, to emerge.
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‘Just the same, it is spooky. I can feel it. Look there.’ She pointed. ‘There is a hill. There will be a little ring of hills. In the centre of the basin they make would be the pool. And you know what we heard about it before we left San Juan. This whole country is strange, somehow.’
‘Strange?’ he queried challengingly. ‘What do you mean?’
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