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River

of

Dust

Virginia Pye

U N B R I D L E D

B O O K S

This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and

incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or

are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons

living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is

entirely coincidental.

Unbridled Books

Copyright © 2012 by Virginia Pye

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be

reproduced in any form without permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pye, Virginia.

River of dust : a novel / by Virginia Pye.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60953-093-8

1. Americans—China—Fiction. 2. Missionaries—China—

Fiction. 3. Kidnapping—Fiction. 4. Nomads—Mongolia—

Fiction. 5. Retribution—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3616.Y44R58 2013

813'.6—dc23

2012039098

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

Book Design by SH • CV

First Printing

For John, Eva, and Daniel

In or about December 1910, human character

changed. I am not saying that one went out, as

one might into a garden, and there saw that a

rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg.

The change was not sudden and definite like that.

But a change there was, nevertheless. . . . All

human relations have shifted— those between

masters and servants, husbands and wives,

parents and children. And when human relations

change there is at the same time a change in

religion, conduct, politics, and literature.

— Virginia Woolf,

"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,"

Collected Essays