Yellowstone Nights

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Quick Herbert. Yellowstone Nights

CHAPTER I

A TELEPATHIC TRAGEDY

CHAPTER II

THE TRIUMPH OF BILLY HELL

CHAPTER III

THE TRIUMPH OF BILLY HELL

CHAPTER IV

THE HEART OF GOLIATH

CHAPTER V

THE TALE OF TEN THOUSAND DOGIES

CHAPTER VI

A BELATED REBEL INVASION

CHAPTER VII

FROM ALPHA TO OMEGA

CHAPTER VIII

THE LAW AND AMELIA WHINNERY

CHAPTER IX

HENRY PETERS'S SIGNATURE

CHAPTER X

THE RETURN OF JOHN SMITH

CHAPTER XI

THE FEDERAL IMP COMPANY

CHAPTER XII

THE JILTING OF MR. DRISCOLL

CHAPTER XIII

THE STALKING OF PAUGUK

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It was August the third – and the rest of it. Being over Montana, and the Rockies, the skies were just as described by Truthful James. In the little park between the N. P. Station and the entrance to Yellowstone Park a stalwart young fellow and a fluffy, lacy, Paquined girl floated from place to place with their feet seven or eight inches from the earth – or so it seemed. They disappeared behind some shrubbery and sat down on a bench, where the young man hugged the girl ferociously, and she, with that patient endurance which is the wonder and glory of womanhood, suffered it uncomplainingly. In fact she reciprocated it.

Note that we said a moment ago that they disappeared. From whose gaze? Not from ours, for we saw them sit and – and what followed. Their disappearance was from the view of a slender man of medium height who was off toward the station, inspecting the salvias, the phloxes, the cannas, the colei, the materials with which the walks were paved, and the earth in the flower-beds. He looked the near things over with a magnifying-glass, and scrutinized the far landscape with field-glasses. When he removed his traveling cap, one saw that he was bald, though not so bald as he seemed – his weak and neutral hair blended so in color with the neutral shades of his face and garb.

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"Hello!" said he, putting out his hand. "I've been looking for you for eons, to – to thank you, you know. Don't you remember me?"

Before I knew it I had blushingly given him my hand for a moment.

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