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قراءة كتاب Tharon of Lost Valley
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THARON OF LOST
VALLEY
BY
VINGIE E. ROE
Author of “The Maid of the Whispering Hills,” “The Heart
of Night Wind,” etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1919
Copyright, 1919
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Gun Man’s Heritage | 1 |
| II. | The Horses of the Finger Marks | 29 |
| III. | The Man in Uniform | 52 |
| IV. | Unbroken Bread | 76 |
| V. | The Working of the Law | 102 |
| VI. | El Rey and Bolt | 128 |
| VII. | The Shot in the Cañons | 157 |
| VIII. | White Ellen | 187 |
| IX. | Signal Fires in the Valley | 214 |
| X. | The Untrue Firing Pin | 247 |
| XI. | Finger Mark and Ironwood at Last | 277 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| As El Rey rose on his hind feet whirling, that unwavering muzzle whirled also to keep in line | Frontispiece |
| Near them sat a rider on a buckskin horse | 38 |
| She talked with Conford who rode beside her and now and then she smiled | 104 |
| In fact Courtrey, burning with the new desire that was beginning to obsess him, was working out a new design | 131 |
THARON OF LOST VALLEY
Lost Valley lay like a sparkling jewel, fashioned in perfection, cast in the breast of the illimitable mountain country––and forever after forgotten of God.
A tiny world, arrogantly unconscious of any other, it lived its own life, went its own ways, had its own conceptions of law––and they were based upon primeval instincts.
Cattle by the thousand head ran on its level ranges, riders jogged along its trail-less expanses, their broad hats pulled over their eyes, their six-guns at their hips. Corvan, its one town, ran its nightly games, lined its familiar streets with swinging-doored saloons.
Toward the west the Cañon Country loomed behind its sharp-faced cliffs, on the east the rolling ranges, dotted with oak and digger-pine, went 2 gradually up to the feet of the stupendous