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An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier (Classic Reprint)
An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier - Classic Reprint Author:Charles King AN APACHE PRINCESS — CHAPTER J — THE MEETING BY THE WATERS — UNDER 1he willows at the edge of the pool a — young girl sat daydreaming, though the day — was nearly done. All in the valley was wrapped — in shadow, though the cliffs and turrets across the stream — were resplendent it: a radiance of slanting sunshine. Not — a cloud tempered the fierce glare... more » of the arching heavens
or softened the sharp outline of neighboring peak or distant
mountain chain. Not a whisper of breeze stirred the
drooping foliage along the sandy shores or ruffled the
liquid mirror surface. Not a sound, save drowsy hum of
beetle or soft murmur of rippling waters, among the
pebbly shal10ws below, broke the vast silence of the scene.
The snow cap, gleaming at the northern horizon, lay one
hundred miles away and looked but an easy one-day
march. The black upheavals of the ~fatitzal, barring the
southward valley, stood sullen and frowning along the
Verde, jealous of the westward range that threw their
rugged gorg
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; THE MEETING BY THE VATERS,; CHAPTER II; SCOT VERSUS SAXON,; CHAPTER III; MOCCAS1N TRACKS,; CHAPTER IV; A STRICKEN SENTRY,; CHAP'rER V; THE CAPTAIN'S DEFIArCE,; CHAPTER VI; A FIND IN THE SANDS,; CHAPTER VII; VOMAN-'VALK-IN'THE-NIGHT,"; CHAPTER V1Il; ,t APACHE KNIVES DIG DEEP,"; CHAPTER IX; A CARl'ET KNIGHT, INDEED,' ?; CHAPTER X; tf VOMAN-'VALK-IN-THE NIGHT" AGAIN, ?; CHAPTER XI; A STOP-BY WtRE,; CHAPTER XII; FIRE!; ? 9; ? 21; 33; 42; 51; 61; 88; 97; ? 105; · II9; ? 130; 6 CONTE!'TS; CHAPTER XIII; WHOSE LETTERS?; CHAPTER XIV; AUNT JANEl' BRAVED,; CHAPTER XV; A CALL FOR II ELP ?; CHAPTER XVI; A RETURN« less