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Desert Dust, by Edwin L. Sabin
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Title: Desert Dust
Author: Edwin L. Sabin
Illustrator: J. Clinton Shepherd
Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27437]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: Like some land of Heart's Desire (see page 22).]
DESERT DUST
By
EDWIN L. SABIN
Author of "How Are You Feeling Now?" etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
J. CLINTON SHEPHERD
[Illustration: QUINON PROFICIT DEFICIT]
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1921, by Frank A. Munsey Company
Copyright, 1922, by George W. Jacobs & Company
All rights reserved Printed in U. S. A.
CONTENTS
I. A Pair of Blue Eyes 9
II. To Better Acquaintance 22
III. I Rise in Favor 36
IV. I Meet Friends 54
V. On Grand Tour 72
VI. "High and Dry" 88
VII. I Go to Rendezvous 102
VIII. I Stake on the Queen 118
IX. I Accept an Offer 131
X. I Cut Loose 145
XI. We Get a "Super" 162
XII. Daniel Takes Possession 181
XIII. Someone Fears 197
XIV. I Take a Lesson 205
XV. Th