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Title: Desert Conquest
or, Precious Waters

Author: A. M. Chisholm

Release Date: June 8, 2008 [eBook #25728]

Language: English

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DESERT CONQUEST

Or

Precious Waters

by

A. M. CHISHOLM

Author of The Boss of Wind River, Etc.

Illustrated by Clarence Rowe

[Illustration: "I'LL MAKE THIS ONE QUIET!" SNAPPED SHEILA, FOR THE HARD
PACE HAD TOLD ON HER TEMPER THROUGH HER BRUISES]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1913, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
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translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1912, 1913, by Street & Smith, Publishers

DESERT CONQUEST

or

PRECIOUS WATERS

CHAPTER I

Miss Nita Hess flattened a snub nose against the Pullman window, and
stared at the expressionless face of the plains with an avidity to be
explained only by the fact that her acquaintance with them up to then
had been principally through the medium of light literature perused
surreptitiously in a select school for young ladies in the extreme
East. But her remarks from time to time would have shocked the
ultra-correct preceptresses of that excellent seat of learning.

"Oh, gee, Clyde," she exclaimed suddenly, "look at the cute little
deer! Oh, see 'em scoot!"

Her companion glanced from the window, and stifled a yawn. "Antelope,"
she commented, without interest. "Yes, I see them, Nita," and leaned
back again, closing her eyes.

In fact, Miss Clyde Burnaby was bored by the journey, and a little--a
very