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Title: Frank of Freedom Hill

Author: Samuel A. Derieux

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #25991]

Language: English

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FRANK OF FREEDOM HILL

BY
SAMUEL A. DERIEUX

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1922

[Illustration: _Old Frank and Tommy_]

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, BY THE CROWELL COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

TO

DR. BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS

WHO BELIEVED I COULD WRITE

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. THE DESTINY OF DAN VI 1

II. PARADISE REGAINED 28

III. THE BOLTER 51

IV. OLD FRANK SEES IT THROUGH 74

V. AN ACT OF GOD 100

VI. COMET 122

VII. THE CRISIS IN 25 147

VIII. THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE 167

IX. THE PURSUIT 194

X. THE LITTLE BOY IN THE BLACKBERRY PATCH 219

XI. BLOOD MONEY 245

XII. THE CALL OF HOME 266

FRANK OF FREEDOM HILL

I

THE DESTINY OF DAN VI

The baggageman slid open the side door of the car. With a rattle of his
chain Dan sprang to his feet. A big red Irish setter was Dan, of his
breed sixth, and most superb, his colour wavy-bronze, his head erect and
noble, his eyes eloquent with that upward-looking appeal of hunting dog
to hunting man.

Cold, pine-laden air deluged the heated car and chilled his qu