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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Kildares of Storm, by Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Kildares of Storm Author: Eleanor Mercein Kelly Release Date: October 20, 2009 [eBook #30291] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KILDARES OF STORM*** E-text prepared by David Garcia, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 30291-h.htm or 30291-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30291/30291-h/30291-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30291/30291-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;view=toc;idno=b92-228-31183707 KILDARES OF STORM by ELEANOR MERCEIN KELLY With Frontispiece by Alonzo Kimball New York The Century Co. 1916 Copyright, 1916, by The Century Co. Published, October, 1916 TO AN UNFORGOTTEN MOTHER Who moulded for others than her daughter the standard of great womanhood [Illustration: But for once Jacqueline of the eager lips turned her cheek, so that her mother's kiss should not disturb the memory of certain others] KILDARES OF STORM CHAPTER I Along a pleasant Kentucky road that followed nature rather than art in its curves and meanderings, straying beside a brook awhile before it decided to cross, lingering in cool, leafy hollows, climbing a sudden little hill to take a look out over the rolling countryside--along this road a single-footing mare went steadily, carrying a woman who rode cross-saddle, with a large china vase tucked under one arm. People in an approaching automobile stopped talking to stare at her. She returned their gaze calmly, while the startled mare made some effort to climb a tree, thought better of it, and sidled by w
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