Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, 1869-1934 / 2008-07-29 00:00:00

EBOOK DESIRE OF THE MOTH ***


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THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH AND THE COME ON

BY EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES
ILLUSTRATIONS BY H.T. DUNN


ILLUSTRATIONS

They were riding hard
"Gentlemen--be seated!"


THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH


Chapter I
_"Little Next Door--her years are few--
Loves me, more than her elders do;
Says, my wrinkles become me so;
Marvels much at the tales I know.
Says, we shall marry when she is grown----"_

The little happy song stopped short. John Wesley Pringle, at the
mesa's last headland, drew rein to adjust his geography. This was new
country to him.
Close behind, Organ Mountain flung up a fantasy of spires,
needle-sharp and bare and golden. The long straight range--saw-toothed
limestone save for this twenty-mile sheer upheaval of the
Organ--stretched away to north and south against the unclouded sky,
till distance turned the barren gray to blue-black, to blue, to misty
haze; till the sharp, square-angled masses rounded to hillocks--to a
blur--a wavy line--nothing.
More than a hundred miles to the north-west, two midget mountains
wavered in the sky. John Wesley nodded at their unforgotten shapes and
pieced this vast landscape to the patchwork map in his head.
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