ELDER CONKLIN     

       AND OTHER STORIES     

  

       By Frank Harris     

   

       New York Macmillan And Co. And London 1894 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY MACMILLAN AND CO.     

   

   

 CONTENTS 

  ELDER CONKLIN.  

  THE SHERIFF AND HIS PARTNER.  

  A MODERN IDYLL.  

  EATIN' CROW  

  THE BEST MAN IN GAROTTE.  

  GULMORE, THE BOSS  

   

  

       ELDER CONKLIN.     

       As soon as the Elder left the supper-table his daughter and the new schoolmaster went out on the stoop or verandah which ran round the frame-house. The day had been warm, but the chilliness of the evening air betokened the near approach of the Indian summer. The house stood upon the crest of what had been a roll in the prairie, and as the two leant together on the railing of the stoop, they looked out over a small orchard of peach-trees to where, a couple of hundred yards 

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