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LONE PINE
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New Fiction
SMITH BRUNT
United States Navy. By WALDRON K. POST, author of "Harvard Stories,"etc. 12mo, 459 pages, $1.50.
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Being Stories of Land and Sea. By Major W. P. DRURY, Royal Marines. 12mo,286 pages, $1.00.
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The Story of Her Development. By OLIVE PRATT RAYNER (Grant Allen),author of "Flowers and Their Pedigrees," etc. Hudson Library, No. 39.12mo, 396 pages, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.
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ABOARD "THE AMERICAN DUCHESS"
By HEADON HILL. Hudson Library, No. 41. 12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth,$1.00.
NOTE.--This is a reprint of a work previously published under the title of "Queen of the Night"--with certain changes of names.
"He has certainly given to the reading public a capital story full of action. It is a bright novel and contains many admirable chapters. Life on the ocean is well depicted, many exciting episodes are well told, and it will interest readers of all classes."--_Knoxville Sentinel._
THE PRIEST'S MARRIAGE
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LONE PINE
The Story of a Lost Mine
by
R. B. TOWNSHEND
Decoration]
G. P. Putnam's SonsNew York & LondonThe Knickerbocker Press1900
Copyright, 1899by G. P. Putnam's Sons
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TOMY FRIENDS IN SANTIAGO
RED AND WHITE
AND
IN MEMORY OFA BRINDLED BULLDOG
I have to thank Senor F. de Arteaga y Pereira, Reader of Spanish in theUniversity of Oxford, for the Spanish version of Heine's poem whichappears in Chapter XXIX.
A lone pine stands in the Northland On a bald and barren height. He sleeps, by the snows enfolded In a mantle of wintry white. He dreams of a lonely palm-tree, Afar in the morning-land, Consumed with unspoken longing In a waste of burning sand. _After Heine._
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I.--INDIAN LOVERS 1
II.--A LONE HAND 12
III.--BLASTING THE ACEQUIA 22
IV.--A RACE WITH A MULE 38
V.--"OJOS AZULES NO MIRAN" 46
VI.--AN OLD WOUND REOPENED 59
VII.--DESDEMONA LISTENS 74
VIII.--CHILDREN OF THE SUN 90
IX.--A SQUAW FOR A FEE 105
X.--AN ELOPEMENT 119
XI.--MY DUCATS AND MY DAUGHTER 131
XII.--PACIFYING A GHOST 144
XIII.--A GIRL'S TEARS 163
XIV--A STERN CHASE 180
XV.--THE ROD DESCENDS 188
XVI.--THE FEE IS ACCEPTED 197
XVII.--MADAM WHAILAHAY 214
XVIII.--HUNTING A TRAIL 229
XIX.--RUN TO GROUND 244
XX.--THE WOLF'S LAIR 258
XXI.--DRIVING A BARGAIN 269
XXII.--A WOUNDED MAN 285
XXIII.--A PICNIC PARTY 297
XXIV.--WEIGHING THE SILVER 308
XXV.--A PREHISTORIC HEARTH 323
XXVI.--THE SNAKE'S VERDICT 340
XXVII.--AULD ACQUAINTANCE 353
XXVIII.--ELEVEN TO ONE 366
XXIX.--PEACE WITH HONOUR 384
LONE PINE