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Title: Daughter of the Sun
A Tale of Adventure

Author: Jackson Gregory

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DAUGHTER OF THE SUN

A Tale of Adventure

by

JACKSON GREGORY

(Quien Sabe)

Author of
Timber Wolf, The Everlasting Whisper, Desert Valley, Etc.

[Frontispiece: Zoraida Castelmar, daughter of the Montezumas]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers -------- New York
Copyright, 1921, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright as "The Treasure of the Hills,"
1920, 1921, by Street & Smith

TO

ZINGARA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. IN WHICH A YOUNG AMERICAN KNOWN AS "HEADLONG" PLAYS AT
DICE WITH ONE IN MAN'S CLOTHING WHO IS NOT A MAN

II. IN WHICH A SPELL IS WORKED AND AN EXPEDITION IS BEGUN

III. OF THE NEW MOON, A TALE OF AZTEC TREASURE AND A MYSTERY

IV. INDICATING THAT THAT WHICH APPEARS THE EARTHLY PARADISE
MAY PROVE QUITE ANOTHER SORT OF PLACE

V. HOW ONE NOT ACCUSTOMED TO TAKING ANOTHER MAN'S ORDERS
RECEIVES THE COMMAND OF THE QUEEN LADY

VI. CONCERNING THAT WHICH LAY IN THE EYES OF ZORAIDA

VII. OF A GIRL HELD FOR RANSOM AND OF A TOAST DRUNK BY ONE
INFATUATED

VIII. HOW A MAN MAY CARRY A MESSAGE AND NOT KNOW HIMSELF TO BE A
MESSENGER

IX. WHICH BEGINS WITH A LITTLE SONG AND ENDS WITH TROUBLE
BETWEEN FRIENDS

X. IN WHICH A MAN KEEPS HIS WORD AND ZORAIDA DARES AND LAUGHS

XI. IN WHICH THERE IS MORE THAN ONE LIE TOLD AND THE TRUTH
IS GLIMPSED

XII. IN WHICH AN OVERTURE IS MADE, AN ANSWER IS POSTPONED AND
A DOOR IS LOCKED

XIII. CONCERNING W