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Salomy Jane
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Title: Salomy Jane
Author: Bret Harte
Release Date: February 27, 2005 [EBook #15192]
Language: English
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SALOMY JANE
BY
BRET HARTE
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HARRISON FISHER AND
ARTHUR I. KELLER
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE
1910
COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY BRET HARTE
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_Published October 1910_
CONTENTS
I A KISS AND AN ESCAPE 1
II THE LADY'S REFLECTIONS 19
III THE KISS REPEATED 35
IV ANOTHER ESCAPE 59
A KISS AND AN ESCAPE
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I
Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark,--the ringleader of the Vigilantes,--and had left Red Pete, who had fired it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been cramped by hard riding, and his eye distracted by their sudden onset, and so the inevitable end had come. He submitted sullenly to his captors; his companion fugitive and horse-t