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Title: Children of the Desert

Author: Louis Dodge

Release Date: September 7, 2008 [EBook #26550]

Language: English

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CHILDREN OF THE DESERT

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

BONNIE MAY. Illustrated by Reginald Birch.
12mo . . . . . . . . . . . . . net $1.35

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CHILDREN OF THE DESERT

BY
LOUIS DODGE

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1917

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Copyright, 1917, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published March, 1917

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TO
THE FRIENDS OF EAGLE PASS AND
PIEDRAS NEGRAS--IN THE
GOOD OLD DAYS

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CONTENTS

PART PAGE
I. Harboro and Sylvia 1
II. The Time Of Flame 65
III. Fectnor, The People's Advocate 99
IV. The Horse With The Golden Dapples 177
V. A Wind From The North 211
VI. The Guest-chamber 243
VII. Sylvia 273

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PART I

HARBORO AND SYLVIA

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CHILDREN OF THE DESERT

CHAPTER I

They were married in the little Episcopal church in Eagle Pass on a
September day in the late eighties. The fact may be verified, I have no
doubt, by any who will take the trouble to examine the records, for the
toy-like place of worship still stands.

The church structure is not, perhaps, so small as my imagination presents
it to me; but I cannot see it save with the desert as a background--the
desert austere and illimitable. You reach the prim little front door by
climbing a street which runs parallel with the Ri