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Title: The Song of the Wolf

Author: Frank Mayer

Release Date: April 9, 2010 [eBook #31930]

Language: English

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THE SONG OF THE WOLF

by

FRANK MAYER

Copyright, 1910, by
Moffat, Yard and Company
New York

Published, April, 1910

CONTENTS

I. A RIFT IN THE LUTE

II. THE MARK OF THE BEAST

III. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING

IV. IN THE MIDST OF ALARUMS

V. "HER HEART WON'T BE BROKE NONE"

VI. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN

VII. BELSHAZZAR

VIII. THE PASSING OF A CLOUD

IX. IN PART PAYMENT

X. THAT WHICH IS CAESAR'S

XI. FRENZIED FINANCE

XII. NOT STRICTLY ACCORDING TO PROGRAM

XIII. A LAUGH IN THE NIGHT

XIV. A FAIR FIELD AND NO FAVORS

XV. GREAT EXPECTATIONS

XVI. THE SONG OF THE WOLF

XVII. THE FROWNING GODDESS SMILES

XVIII. IN THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR

XIX. MUTUAL ASSISTANCE

XX. A PASSAGE AT ARMS

XXI. THE WIDENING CHASM

XXII. THE RENUNCIATION

XXIII. BELSHAZZAR COMES BACK TO STAY

"When a man gets through playin' thu goat he gin'rally feels some
obligated to act the sheep foh a spell, so's to even up thu deal."

Red McVey

THE SONG OF THE WOLF

CHAPTER I

A RIFT IN THE LUTE

Everything else was in harmony. If the sky turquoise was a shade or two
paler than the prescribed robin's-egg, it blended perfectly with the
unpronounced greens of the sprouting grass and the uncertain olive of
the budding sagebrush. On the crest of the