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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
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