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Title: Tharon of Lost Valley

Author: Vingie E. Roe

Illustrator: Frank Tenney Johnson

Release Date: May 24, 2009 [EBook #28956]

Language: English

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[Illustration: AS EL REY ROSE ON HIS HIND FEET WHIRLING, THAT UNWAVERING
MUZZLE WHIRLED ALSO TO KEEP IN LINE]

THARON OF LOST VALLEY

BY VINGIE E. ROE

Author of "The Maid of the Whispering Hills,"
"The Heart of Night Wind," etc.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1919

Copyright, 1919

By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Gun Man's Heritage 1
II. The Horses of the Finger Marks 29
III. The Man in Uniform 52
IV. Unbroken Bread 76
V. The Working of the Law 102
VI. El Rey and Bolt 128
VII. The Shot in the Canons 157
VIII. White Ellen 187
IX. Signal Fires in the Valley 214
X. The Untrue Firing Pin 247
XI. Finger Mark and Ironwood at Last 277

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

As El Rey rose on his hind feet whirling, that
unwavering muzzle whirled also to keep in line _Frontispiece_

Near them sat a rider on a buckskin horse 38

She talked with Conford who rode beside her and
now and then she smiled 104

In fact Courtrey, burning with the new desire
that was beginning to obsess him, was work