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Title: Penny of Top Hill Trail

Author: Belle Kanaris Maniates

Illustrator: Philip Lyford

Release Date: November 4, 2008 [EBook #27150]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Penny and the Sheriff match wits under the stars._]

PENNY
of Top Hill Trail

By
Belle Kanaris Maniates

Author of
"Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley,"
"Mildew Manse," etc.

Frontispiece by
Philip Lyford

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago

Copyright, 1919
By
The Reilly & Lee Co.

All Rights Reserved

Made in U. S. A.

Published, Feb. 8, 1919
Second Printing, Feb. 10, 1919

Penny of Top Hill Trail

PENNY OF TOP HILL TRAIL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I 7
CHAPTER II 33
CHAPTER III 60
CHAPTER IV 90
CHAPTER V 108
CHAPTER VI 116
CHAPTER VII 141
CHAPTER VIII 155
CHAPTER IX 161
CHAPTER X 177
CHAPTER XI 203
CHAPTER XII 216
CHAPTER XIII 232
CHAPTER XIV 238
CHAPTER XV 248
CHAPTER XVI 262
CHAPTER XVII 282

[Transcriber's Note: Table of Contents was not present in the original
publication.]

PENNY
of Top Hill Trail

CHAPTER I

On an afternoon in early spring a man lounged against the wall of the
station waiting for the express from the east. Slender of waist and hip,
stalwart of shoulder, some seventy-two inches of sinewy height, he was the
figure of the typical cattleman. His eyes were deep-set and far-seeing;
his lean, brown face, roughened by outdoor life, was austere and resolute
in expression.

The train had barely stopped when a boyish-looking, lithe-limbed youth
leaped from the platform. The blue serge suit and checked cap he wore did
not disguise the fact that his working clothes--his field uniform--were
those of a cow-puncher. A few quick strides brought him to the man in
waiting.

"Hoped you'd be on hand to meet me, Kurt, so I could get