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Title: The Ordeal
A Mountain Romance of Tennessee

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

Illustrator: Douglas Duer

Release Date: November 13, 2006 [EBook #19776]

Language: English

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THE ORDEAL

A MOUNTAIN ROMANCE OF TENNESSEE

BY
CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

AUTHOR OF

"THE RAID OF THE GUERILLA,"
"THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS,"
"THE FAIR MISSISSIPPIAN," ETC.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BY DOUGLAS DUER

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1912

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

Transcriber's Notes:

This paragraph in Chapter II. is obviously a printer's error:

Here they found a change of sentiment prevailing. Although failing
in no observance of courtesy, Mrs. Briscoe had been a little less
than complaisant toward the departed guest. This had been vaguely
perceptible to Briscoe at the time, but now she gency constrained
him.

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