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[Frontispiece: Sometimes, in these days, she went to a crest from which
the view reached far off for leagues over the valley.]
A PAGAN OF THE HILLS
BY
CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
AUTHOR OF
"THE CALL OF THE CUMBERLANDS,"
"THE BATTLE CRY,"
"WHEN BEARCAT WENT DRY," ETC., ETC.
Frontispiece by
GEORGE W. GAGE
NEW YORK
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
CONTENTS
A PAGAN OF THE HILLS
CHAPTER I
"It's plum amazin' ter heer ye norate thet ye've done been tradin' andhagglin' with old man McGivins long enough ter buy his logs offen himand yit ye hain't never met up with Alexander. I kain't hardly fathomhit noways."
The shambling mountaineer stretched himself to his lean length of sixfeet two, and wagged an incredulous head. Out of pale eyes he studiedthe man before him until the newcomer from "down-below" felt that, inthe attitude, lay almost the force of rebuke. It was as though hestood self-convicted of having visited Naples without seeing Vesuvius.