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Title: The Mountain Girl

Author: Payne Erskine

Illustrator: J. Duncan Gleason

Release Date: May 19, 2010 [EBook #32429]

Language: English

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THE MOUNTAIN GIRL

[Illustration: _"We will go home--to my home--just like this,
together."_

FRONTISPIECE. _See Page 311._]

The Mountain Girl

By PAYNE ERSKINE

Author of "When the Gates Lift Up Their Heads."

[Illustration]

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. DUNCAN GLEASON

A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1911, 1912, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. In which David Thryng arrives at Carew's Crossing 1

II. In which David Thryng experiences the Hospitality of
the Mountain People 10

III. In which Aunt Sally takes her Departure and meets Frale 25

IV. David spends his First Day at his Cabin, and Frale makes
his Confession 35

V. In which Cassandra goes to David with her Trouble, and
gives Frale her Promise 47

VI. In which David aids Frale to make his Escape 59

VII. In which Frale goes down to Farington in his own Way 68

VIII. In which David Thryng makes a Discovery 76

IX. In which David accompanies Cassandra on an Errand of Mercy 86

X. In which Cassandra and David visit the Home of Decatur
Irwin 94

XI. In which Spring comes to the Mountains, and Cassandra
tells David of her Father 103

XII. In which Cassandra hears the Voices, and David leases
a Farm 1