Love to the Rescue

The Heavens Open

Fulfilment of the Law

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eyes shone with admiration”

“Like a flash José’s arm swung back, ... and Curtis sprang lightly aside as the knife struck deep into the tree”

sprang lightly aside as the knife struck deep into

the tree”

him ask”

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THE DELAFIELD AFFAIR

CHAPTER I

VENGEANCE AVOWED

Curtis Conrad turned from superintending repairs on the adobe wall, and walked across the corral to the gate at the opposite side. As he filled his pipe he looked across the wide, greenish-gray New Mexican plateau stretching far to east and south and west. It was dotted here and there with little groups of grazing cattle, and he noted a straggling procession of the creatures, their figures wavering and distorted in the heat haze, coming down from the distant foot-hills. They were following a trail that cut across the plain in a straight line to the pond across the road from the house, beyond a grove of cottonwood trees.

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