Tales of mountain and mesa - Softcover

Nicholl, Edith M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0217059007 ISBN 13: 9780217059008

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... got something else to do." And he left the house. There are prayers which are as the mere beating of bleeding hands on barred gates--the barred and silent gates of heaven. "What shall I do! What shall I do!" She listened to his footsteps crossing the dry alfalfa. Chiquito stood beside her, with tail uncurled. Otherwise she was alone. Upon the silver globe of the rising moon one barren peak stood out, sharply defined, then dropped back into vagueness as the great orb swung on and up. Between this peak and the little adobe house rolled leagues of sandy waste--the desert solitude, whose like may only be found in midocean, on a gray winter's day. Three helpless minutes throbbed by. Then a shot pierced the translucent night. Immediately thereafter followed the sound of a horse's flying feet. When the two men came up to the house, Eleanor was lying face downward on the floor, Chiquito licking her unheeding hands. A woman's endurance has its limits, after all. George stumbled on unseeing. Huntley stooped, and with an expression on his face such as no living being had ever seen there, lifted her in his arms and laid her on the couch. For a moment he stood looking down on his first and only love. Then he turned, and followed his friend. "They say that chap yonder's 'bout to turn up his toes." The speaker,with a companion,was riding past George Murton's ranch. "Yes, and his wife's most wore out nursin' him. Aint got no one to help her, savin' it's Markham." "The women will have it up and down that he's an old lover and ain't there for no good." The other man swore a little. "The women! Let them'tend to their own business! Show me one who'll stand by her husband when he ain't no good like as that woman's standin' by hers. Show me one, I say!" He lashed his...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0217059007
• ISBN 13: 9780217059008
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 42