Justin Wingate, Ranchman

Justin Wingate, Ranchman
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Whitson John Harvey. Justin Wingate, Ranchman

BOOK ONE—THE PREPARATION

CHAPTER I. THE DREAMER AND THE DREAM

CHAPTER II. WINGATE JOURNEYS ON

CHAPTER III. CLAYTON’S VISITORS

CHAPTER IV. SIBYL

CHAPTER V. THE INVASION OF PARADISE

CHAPTER VI. WHEN LOVE WAS YOUNG

CHAPTER VII. WILLIAM SANDERS

CHAPTER VIII. AND MARY WENT TO DENVER

CHAPTER IX. A REVELATION OF CHARACTER

CHAPTER X. PIPINGS OF PAN

CHAPTER XI. THE TRAGEDY OF THE RANGE

CHAPTER XII. WITH SIBYL AND MARY

CHAPTER XIII. WHEN AMBITION CAME

CHAPTER XIV. IN THE STORM

CHAPTER XV. A FLASH OF LIGHTNING

CHAPTER XVI. BEN DAVISON’S TRIUMPH

BOOK TWO—THE BATTLE

CHAPTER I. COWARDICE AND HEROISM

CHAPTER II. THE HARVEST OF THE FIRE

CHAPTER III. LEES OF THE WINE

CHAPTER IV. IN THE WHIRLPOOL

CHAPTER V. HARKNESS AND THE SEER

CHAPTER VI. THE MOTH AND THE FLAME

CHAPTER VII. THE COMPACT

CHAPTER VIII. THE THRALL OF THE PAST

CHAPTER IX. SANDERS TELLS HIS STORY

CHAPTER X. IN THE CRUCIBLE

CHAPTER XI. FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER XII. CHANGING EVENTS

CHAPTER XIII. IN PARADISE VALLEY

CHAPTER XIV. THE DOWNWARD WAY

CHAPTER XV. MARY’S DESPAIR

CHAPTER XVI. THE WAGES OF SIN

CHAPTER XVII. SHADOWS BEFORE

CHAPTER XVIII. PHILOSOPHY GONE MAD

CHAPTER XIX. SIBYL AND CLAYTON

CHAPTER XX. THE RIDE WITH DEATH

CHAPTER XXI. RECONCILIATION

CHAPTER XXII. THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE

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Before swinging out of the saddle in front of the little school house which was serving as a church, Curtis Clayton, physician and philosopher, looked over the valley which held the story of a romantic hope and where he was to bury his own shattered dream. The rain of the morning had cleared away the bluish ground haze, the very air had been washed clean, and the land lay revealed in long levels and undulating ridges. Behind towered the mountain, washed clean, too, its flat top etched against the sky and every crag and peak standing out sharp and hard as a cameo.

Clayton’s broncho pawed restlessly on the edge of a grass-grown cellar. All about the tiny cluster of unoccupied houses were other grass-grown cellars, and the foundation lines of vanished buildings, marking the site of the abandoned town. Beside the school house, from which came now the sound of singing, horses were tied to a long hitching rack. A few farm wagons stood near, the unaccustomed mud drying on their wheels.

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“We think it is his hair,” said Wingate. “It was found beside the writing on the fly-leaf.”

Then while the boy crowded close against Clayton’s knees, and Clayton sat holding the open Bible in his hands, Wingate told the story of this child, who now bore the name of Justin Wingate.

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