A DAMAGED REPUTATION BYHAROLD BINDLOSS BY HAROLD BINDLOSS AUTHOR OF"ALTON OF SOMASCO" "MISTRESS OF BONAVENTURE" ETC., ETC. AUTHOR OF R. F. FENNO & COMPANY 18 EAST 17th STREET, NEW YORK 17th Copyright, 1908, by R. F. Fenno & Company R. F. Fenno & Company CONTENTS. PAGE [Pg 9] [Pg 9] A DAMAGED REPUTATION. I. BROOKE PAUSES TO REFLECT. BROOKE PAUSES TO REFLECT. It was a still, hot night, and the moon hung round and full above the cedars, when rancher Brooke sat in his comfortless shanty with a whisky bottle at his hand. The door stood open, and the drowsy fragrance of the coniferous forest stole into the room, while when he glanced in that direction he could see hemlock and cedar, redwood and balsam, tower, great black spires, against the luminous blueness of the night. Far above them gleamed the untrodden snow that clothed the great peaks with spotless purity; but this was melting fast under the
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