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Title: Heart of the Sunset
Author: Rex Beach
Posting Date: December 14, 2009 [EBook #5099]
Release Date: February, 2004
Language: English
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HEART OF THE SUNSET
By Rex Beach
Author of "THE SILVER HORDE" "THE SPOILERS" "THE IRON TRAIL" Etc.
CONTENTS
I. THE WATER-HOLE
II. THE AMBUSH
III. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WATER-HOLE
IV. AN EVENING AT LAS PALMAS
V. SOMETHING ABOUT HEREDITY
VI. A JOURNEY, AND A DARK MAN
VII. LUIS LONGORIO
VIII. BLAZE JONES'S NEMESIS
IX. A SCOUTING TRIP
X. A RANGER'S HORSE
XI. JUDGE ELLSWORTH EXACTS A PROMISE
XII. LONGORIO MAKES BOLD
XIII. DAVE LAW BECOMES JEALOUS
XIV. JOSE SANCHEZ SWEARS AN OATH
XV. THE TRUTH ABOUT PANFILO
XVI. THE RODEO
XVII. THE GUZMAN INCIDENT
XVIII. ED AUSTIN TURNS AT BAY
XIX. RANGERS
XX. SUPERSTITIONS AND CERTAINTIES
XXI. AN AWAKENING
XXII. WHAT ELLSWORTH HAD TO SAY
XXIII. THE CRASH
XXIV. DAVE LAW COMES HOME
XXV. A WARNING AND A SURPRISE
XXVI. THE WATER-CURE
XXVII. LA FERIA
XXVIII. THE DOORS OF PARADISE
XXIX. THE PRIEST FROM MONCLOVA
XXX. THE MAN OF DESTINY
XXXI. A SPANISH WILL
XXXII. THE DAWN
HEART OF THE SUNSET
I
THE WATER-HOLE
A fitful breeze played among the mesquite bushes. The naked earth,
where it showed between the clumps of grass, was baked plaster hard. It
burned like hot slag, and except for a panting lizard here and there,
or a dust-gray jack-rabbit, startled from its covert, nothing animate
stirred upon its face. High and motionless in the blinding sky a
buzzard poised; long-tailed Mexican crows among the thorny branches
creaked and whistled, choked and rattled, snored and grunted; a dove
mourned inconsolably, and out of the air issued metallic insect
cries--the direction whence they cam
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