Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       D E S E R T G O L D

       PROLOGUE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       I

       OLD FRIENDS

       II

       MERCEDES CASTANEDA

       III

       A FLIGHT INTO THE DESERT

       IV

       FORLORN RIVER

       V

       A DESERT ROSE

       VI

       THE YAQUI

       VII

       WHITE HORSES

       VIII

       THE RUNNING OF BLANCO SOL

       IX

       AN INTERRUPTED SIESTA

       X

       ROJAS

       XI

       ACROSS CACTUS AND LAVA

       XII

       THE CRATER OF HELL

       XIII

       CHANGES AT FORLORN RIVER

       XIV

       A LOST SON

       XV

       BOUND IN THE DESERT

       XVI

       MOUNTAIN SHEEP

       XVII

       THE WHISTLE OF A HORSE

       XVIII

       REALITY AGAINST DREAMS

       XIX

       THE SECRET OF FORLORN RIVER

       XX

       DESERT GOLD

D E S E R T G O L D

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PROLOGUE

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I

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      A FACE haunted Cameron—a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond.

      This hour, when the day had closed and the lonely desert night set in with its dead silence, was one in which Cameron's mind was thronged with memories of a time long past—of a home back in Peoria, of a woman he had wronged and lost, and loved too late. He was a prospector for gold, a hunter of solitude, a lover of the drear, rock-ribbed infinitude, because he wanted to be alone to remember.

      A sound disturbed Cameron's reflections. He bent his head listening. A soft wind fanned the paling embers, blew sparks and white ashes and thin smoke away into the enshrouding circle of blackness. His burro did not appear to be moving about. The quiet split