Excerpt: ...grew worse and worse. The girl became ill and feverish with fear, loathing and uncertainty. Her ears rang with the horrors of their lewdness, her eyes came to see but little, for she kept them closed for the very pain of what they were likely to witness. In her heart there grew a constant prayer for deliverance from their clutches. She was much too strong-minded and healthy to pray for death, but her mind fairly reeled with the thoughts of the vengeance she would exact. The third day found the gang morose and ...
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Excerpt: ...grew worse and worse. The girl became ill and feverish with fear, loathing and uncertainty. Her ears rang with the horrors of their lewdness, her eyes came to see but little, for she kept them closed for the very pain of what they were likely to witness. In her heart there grew a constant prayer for deliverance from their clutches. She was much too strong-minded and healthy to pray for death, but her mind fairly reeled with the thoughts of the vengeance she would exact. The third day found the gang morose and ugly. The confinement was as irksome to them as it was to her. They fretted and worried, swore and growled. At nightfall of each day Sam ventured forth through the passage and out into the night. Each time he was gone for two or three hours, and each succeeding return to the vile cave threw the gang into deeper wrath. The word they were expecting was not forthcoming, the command from the real master was not given. They played cards all day, and at last began to drink more deeply than was wise. Two desperate fights occurred between Davy and Sam on the third day. Bill and the old woman pulled them apart after both had been battered savagely. "She's sick, Sam," growled Bill, standing over the cowering, white-faced prisoner near the close of the fourth day. Sam had been away nearly all of the previous night, returning gloomily without news from headquarters. "She'll die in this d
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Good. First edition bound in light green cloth with color pictorial pastedow n on the front board, illustrated by Justice, 346 pages. A Good copy, book has a tiny frays to the spine tips & small rub marks to the corn er. Rear board has some soiling. Text clean, a couple of the b&w inter ior plates are starting to shake loose, although none are completely d etached. Decent copy.
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Good. Size: 0x0x0; Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Good. Size: 7x5x1; Clean pages with general wear from reading and storage. If the dust jacket is present it may have curling, wear, or small tears on the edges. Some books have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response!
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Art by B. Martin Justice. Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 346. 7700 shelf. Black-stamped red cloth. Small burned circle back cover. Lovely paste-down front cover. No names, clean text. 2 pgs of ads. Solid, attractive.
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hard Back 1907, First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fair Condition w/o jacket. George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. This story set in the American West centers around the adopted daughter of the town marshall and the mystery surrounding her parentage. Illustrations by B. Martin Justice-full color frontis and fourteen full page b/w plates; in-text drawings throughout. Binding of green cloth with paste-down illustration on front, ivory titles on spine (color mostly rubbed off) and white titles on front partially rubbed off. Generally clean and worn, with spotting, edges rubbed, corners worn, with some scuffing. Sewn binding remains tight and solid, square. Endpapers. frontis and title page heavily foxed. Pages generally clean with occasional smudges and foxing, lightly toned, no writing, no creases. George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. 346 pages. 7.5 x.5 inches. 1907, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, New York, USA.
