A Vendetta of the Hills. Willis George Emerson

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       Willis George Emerson

      A Vendetta of the Hills

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066152987

       CHAPTER I—Guadalupe

       CHAPTER II—Charmed Lives

       CHAPTER III—Feminine Attractions

       CHAPTER IV—Back to the Soil

       CHAPTER V—At La Siesta

       CHAPTER VI—The Quarrel

       CHAPTER VII—Old Bandit Days

       CHAPTER VIII—A Letter from San Quentin

       CHAPTER IX—Tia Teresa

       CHAPTER X—The Home of the Recluse

       CHAPTER XI—A Rejected Suitor

       CHAPTER XII—The Sped Bullet

       CHAPTER XIII—Accused

       CHAPTER XIV—Entanglements

       CHAPTER XV—Behind the Bars

       CHAPTER XVI—Pierre Luzon Returns

       CHAPTER XVII—The Bitter Bit

       CHAPTER XVIII—Elusive Riches

       CHAPTER XIX—The Jail Delivery

       CHAPTER XX—In the Cavern

       CHAPTER XXI—A Debt of Honor

       CHAPTER XXII—Underqround Wonders

       CHAPTER XXIII—The Unexpected Visitor

       CHAPTER XXIV—In a Tight Corner

       CHAPTER XXV—Love and Revenge

       CHAPTER XXVI—A Date is Fixed

       CHAPTER XXVII—Among the Old Oaks

       CHAPTER XXVIII—The Prize Winner

       CHAPTER XXIX—-The Rendezvous

       CHAPTER XXX—Don Manuel Appears

       CHAPTER XXXI—Shadows of the Past

       CHAPTER XXXII—Forebodings

       CHAPTER XXXIII—Old Friends

       CHAPTER XXXIV—Heart Searchings

       CHAPTER XXXV—At Comanche Point

       CHAPTER XXXVI—-Outwitted

       CHAPTER XXXVII—The Dawn of Comprehension

       CHAPTER XXXVIII—Exit Leach Sharkey

       CHAPTER XXXIX—The Fight on the Cliff

       CHAPTER XL—Revelation

       CHAPTER XLI—Beneath the Precipice

       CHAPTER XLII—Wedding Bells

       THE END

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      IT was a June morning in mid-California. The sun was just rising over the rim of the horizon, dissipating the purple haze of dawn and bathing in golden sunshine a great valley spread out like a parchment scroll. It was a rural scene of magnificent grandeur—encircling mountains, rolling foothills, and then the vast expanse of plain dotted here and there with clumps of trees and clothed with luxuriant grasses.

      Thousands of cattle were bestirring themselves from their slumbers—some sniffing the air and bellowing lowly, others paving the earth in an indifferent way, and all moving slowly toward one or other of the mountain streams that wound serpent-like through the valley, as if they deemed it proper to begin the day with a morning libation.

      To the south, commanding a narrow pass that pierced the Tehachapi mountain range, stood old Fort Tejon, dismantled now and partly in ruins, picturesque if no longer formidable—a romantic relic of old frontier


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