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Project Gutenberg's The Shepherd of the Hills, by Harold Bell Wright #2 in our series by Harold Bell Wright 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: The Shepherd of the Hills Author: Harold Bell Wright Release Date: July 4, 2007 [EBook #4735] Last updated: January 22, 2009 [This file was first posted as shphl10.txtin etext03 on March 10, 2002] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS *** Produced by Jim Weiler and Robert Rowe THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS BY HAROLD BELL WRIGHT TO FRANCES, MY WIFE IN MEMORY OF THAT BEAUTIFUL SUMMER IN THE OZARK HILLS, WHEN, SO OFTEN, WE FOLLOWED THE OLD TRAIL AROUND THE RISE OF MUTTON HOLLOW--THE TRAIL THAT IS NOBODY KNOWS HOW OLD--AND FROM SAMMY'S LOOKOUT WATCHED THE DAY GO OVER THE WESTERN RIDGES. "That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Tho they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted." TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. ACT 3; SC. 3. CHAPTER I. THE STRANGER. It was corn-planting time, when the stranger followed the Old Trail into the Mutton Hollow neighborhood. All day a fine rain had fallen steadily, and the mists hung heavy over the valley. The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold. The trees were dripping with moisture. The stranger looked tired and wet. By his dress, the man was from the world beyond the ridges, and his carefully tailored clothing looked strangely out of place in the mountain wilderness. His form stooped a little in the shoulders, perhaps with weariness, but he carried himself with the unconscious air of one long used to a position of conspicuous power and influence; and, while his well-kept hair and beard were strongly touched with white, the brown, clear lighted eyes, that looked from under their shaggy brows, told of an intellect unclouded by the shadows of many years. It was a face marked deeply by pride; pride of birth, of intellect, of culture; the face of a scholar and poet; but it was more--it was the countenance of one fairly staggering under a burden of disappointment and grief. As the stranger w
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