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Title: In Old Kentucky

Author: Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

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Language: English

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IN OLD KENTUCKY

A Story of the Bluegrass and the Mountains Founded on Charles T. Dazey's
Play

by

EDWARD MARSHALL and CHARLES T. DAZEY

Illustrations By CLARENCE ROWE

1910

[Illustration: SHE SAW THE STRANGER BREAK THROUGH THE UNDERGROWTH ABOUT
THE POOL.]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

She saw the stranger break through the undergrowth
about the pool. (Frontispiece)

A mighty leap had carried them beyond the blazing barrier.

"No man can cross this bridge, unless--unless--"

"Back! back! I'm a-comin' with Queen Bess!"

"I'm standin' face to face with my own father's murderer--Lem Lindsay."

CHAPTER I.

She was coming, singing, down the side of Nebo Mountain--"Old
Nebo"--mounted on an ox. Sun-kissed and rich her coloring; her flowing
hair was like spun light; her arms, bare to the elbows and above, might
have been the models to drive a sculptor to despair, as their muscles
played like pulsing liquid beneath the tinted, velvet skin of wrists and
forearms; her short skirt bared her shapely legs above the ankles
half-way to the knees; her feet, never pinched by shoes and now quite
bare, slender, graceful, patrician in their modelling, in strong
contrast to the linsey-woolsey of her gown and rough surroundings, were
as dainty as a dancing girl's in ancient Athens.

The ox, less stolid than is common with his kind, doubtless because of
ease of li