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Title: A Prairie Infanta

Author: Eva Wilder Brodhead

Release Date: October 10, 2009 [EBook #30224]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _A Prairie Infanta.--Frontispiece_

"THE DOCTOR SCOWLED OVER HIS GLASSES AS HE LISTENED."

_See p. 79_]

A
Prairie Infanta

By

Eva Wilder Brodhead

Illustrated

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY HENRY ALTEMUS

The pictures in this book have been reproduced by the courtesy of "The
Youth's Companion"

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER ONE

THE POWER OF CONSOLATION 13

CHAPTER TWO

A SACRED CHARGE 37

CHAPTER THREE

A TRUE BENEFACTRESS 61

CHAPTER FOUR

WISE IMPULSES 85

CHAPTER FIVE

DESTINY PRESSES 109

CHAPTER SIX

BEWILDERING SATISFACTION 133

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"The doctor scowled over his glasses as he listened" _Frontispiece_

"'I will not go with you!'" 29

"'He is Tesuque, the rain-god'" 55

"'I hoped you'd be able to lend me a hand'" 101

"'Do not make the thread short, Lolita'" 123

"'_Tia_, you are a lady of fortune'" 153

THE
POWER OF CONSOLATION

A PRAIRIE INFANTA

CHAPTER ONE

THE POWER OF CONSOLATION

At the first glance there appeared to be nothing unusual in the scene
confronting Miss Jane Combs as she stood, broad and heavy, in her
doorway that May morning, looking up and down the single street of the
little Colorado mining-town.

Jane's house was broad and heavy also--a rough, paintless "shack,"
which she had built after her own id