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Title: The Girl at the Halfway House

Author: Emerson Hough

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THE GIRL AT THE HALFWAY HOUSE

A Story of the Plains

by

EMERSON HOUGH

Author of _The Covered Wagon_, _54-40 or Fight_, _North of 36_, etc.

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

1900

TO EDWARD KEMEYS,

SOLDIER, HUNTER, AND SCULPTOR,

WHO KNEW AND LOVED THE WEST,

AND WHO HAS PRESERVED ITS SPIRIT IMPERISHABLY,

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED WITH MANY GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

CONTENTS

BOOK I

THE DAY OF WAR

CHAPTER

I. THE BRAZEN TONGUES
II. THE PLAYERS OF THE GAME
III. THE VICTORY

BOOK II

THE DAY OF THE BUFFALO

IV. BATTERSLEIGH OF THE RILE IRISH
V. THE TURNING OF THE ROAD
VI. EDWARD FRANKLIN, LAWYER
VII. THE NEW WORLD
VIII. THE BEGINNING
IX. THE NEW MOVERS
X. THE CHASE
XI. THE BATTLE
XII. WHAT THE HAND HAD TO DO
XIII. PIE AND ETHICS
XIV. THE FIRST BALL AT ELLISVILLE
XV. ANOTHER DAY
XVI. ANOTHER HOUR

BOOK III

THE DAY OF THE CATTLE

XVII. ELLISVILLE THE RED
XVIII. STILL A REBEL
XIX. THAT WHICH HE WOULD
XX. THE HALFWAY HOUSE
XXI. THE ADVICE OF AUNT LUCY
XXII. EN VOYAGE
XXIII. MARY ELLEN
XXIV. THE WAY OF A MAID
XXV. BILL WATSON
XXVI. IKE ANDERSON
XXVII. THE BODY OF THE CRIME
XXVIII. THE TRIAL
XXIX. THE VERDICT

BOOK IV

THE DAY OF THE PLOUGH

XXX. THE END OF THE TRAIL
XXXI. THE SUCCESS OF BATTERSLEIGH
XXXII. THE CALLING
XXXIII. THE GREAT COLD
XXXIV. THE ARTFULNESS OF SAM
XXXV. THE HILL OF DREAMS
XXXVI. AT THE GATEWAY

BOOK I

THE DAY OF WAR

CHAPTER I

THE BRAZEN TONGUES

The band major was a poet. His name is lost to history, but it
deserves a place among the titles of the great. Only in the soul of a
poet, a great man, could there have been conceived that