Judith of the Plains (Western Classics)

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Marie Manning. Judith of the Plains (Western Classics)

Judith of the Plains (Western Classics)

Table of Contents

I “TOWN”

II. THE ENCOUNTER

III. LEANDER AND HIS LADY

IV. JUDITH, THE POSTMISTRESS

V. THE TRAIL OF SENTIMENT

VI. A DAUGHTER OF THE DESERT

VII. CHUGG TAKES THE RIBBONS

VIII. THE RODNEYS AT HOME

IX. MRS. YELLETT AND HER “GOV’MENT”

X. ON HORSE-THIEF TRAIL

XI. THE CABIN IN THE VALLEY

XII. THE ROUND-UP

XIII. MARY’S FIRST DAY IN CAMP

XIV. JUDITH ADJUSTS THE SITUATION

XV. THE WOLF-HUNT

XVI. IN THE LAND OF THE RED SILENCE

XVII. MRS. YELLETT CONTENDS WITH A CLOUDBURST

XVIII. FORESHADOWED

XIX “ROCKED BY A HEMPEN STRING”

XX. THE BALL

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But now entered a man who failed to take the hint of the spinning chair. In fact, he entered the eating-house with the air of one who has dropped in casually to look for a friend and, incidentally, to eat his breakfast. He stopped in the doorway, scanned the table with deliberation, and started to make his way towards Mary Carmichael with something of a swagger. Some one kicked a chair towards him at the head of the table. Some one else nearly upset him with one before he reached the middle, and the Texan remarked, quite audibly, as he passed:

“The damned razor-back!”

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