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The Wild Olive
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Title: The Wild Olive
Author: Basil King
Release Date: August 18, 2004 [EBook #13212]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "There are a hundred men beating the mountain to find you"]
The Wild Olive
A Novel
By the author of The Inner Shrine
Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock
New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Published by Arrangement with Harper & Brothers
Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers All Rights Reserved
Published May, 1910 Printed in the United States of America
Part I
Ford
I
Finding himself in the level wood-road, whose open aisle drew a long, straight streak across the sky, still luminous with the late-lingering Adirondack twilight, the tall young fugitive, hatless, coatless, and barefooted, paused a minute for reflection. As he paused, he listened; but all distinctiveness of sound was lost in the play of the wind, up hill and down dale, through chasm and over crag, in those uncounted leagues of forest. It was only a summer wind, soft a