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Title: The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories

Author: Margaret Collier Graham

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THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES

Margaret Collier Graham

By Margaret Collier Graham

THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES. 12mo, $1.25

STORIES OF THE FOOT-HILLS. 16mo, $1.25

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

The Wizard's Daughter
And Other Stories

By

Margaret Collier Graham

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905

COPYRIGHT 1905
BY MARGARET COLLIER GRAHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1905_

CONTENTS

PAGE

The Wizard's Daughter 1

Marg'et Ann 67

At the Foot of the Trail 133

Lib 169

For Value Received 181

The Face of the Poor 205

The Wizard's Daughter

There had been a norther during the day, and at sunset the valley, seen
from Dysart's cabin on the mesa, was a soft blur of golden haze. The
wind had hurled the yellow leaves from the vineyard, exposing the
gnarled deformity of the vines, and the trailing branches of the
pepper-trees had swept their fallen berries into coral reefs on the
southerly side.

A young man w