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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Heart of the Desert, by Honoré Willsie Morrow, Illustrated by V. Herbert Dunton
Title: The Heart of the Desert
Kut-Le of the Desert
Author: Honoré Willsie Morrow
Release Date: September 30, 2005 [eBook #16777]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Frontispiece: Side by side, they rode off into the desert sunset.]
THE HEART OF THE DESERT
(KUT-LE OF THE DESERT)
By HONORÉ WILLSIE
Author of "Still Jim"
With Frontispiece In Colors
By V. HERBERT DUNTON
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
114-120 East Twenty-third Street —— New York
PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
1913
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I | THE VALLEY OF THE PECOS |
| II | THE CAUCASIAN WAY |
| III | THE INDIAN AND CAUCASIAN |
| IV | THE INDIAN WAY |
| V | THE PURSUIT |
| VI | ENTERING THE DESERT KINDERGARTEN |
| VII | THE FIRST LESSON |
| VIII | A BROADENING HORIZON |
| IX | TOUCH AND GO |
| X | A LONG TRAIL |
| XI | THE TURN IN THE TRAIL |
| XII | THE CROSSING TRAILS |
| XIII | AN INTERLUDE |
| XIV | THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD |
| XV | AN ESCAPE |
| XVI | ADRIFT IN THE DESERT |
| XVII | THE HEART'S OWN BITTERNESS |
| XVIII | THE FORGOTTEN CITY |
| XIX | THE TRAIL AGAIN |
| XX | THE RUINED MISSION |
| XXI | THE END OF THE TRAIL |
The Heart of the Desert
CHAPTER I
THE VALLEY OF THE PECOS
Rhoda hobbled through the sand to the nearest rock. On this she sank with a groan, clasped her slender foot with both hands and looked about her helplessly.
She felt very small, very much alone. The infinite wastes of yellow desert danced in heat waves against the bronze-blue sky. The girl saw no sign of living thing save a buzzard that swept lazily across the zenith. She turned dizzily from contemplating the vast emptiness about her to a close scrutiny of her injured foot. She drew off her thin satin house slipper painfully and dropped it unheedingly into a bunch of yucca that crowded against the rock. Her silk stocking followed. Then she sat in helpless misery, eying