Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine

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  LONE PINE

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  LONE PINE

  The Story of a Lost Mine

  by

  R. B. TOWNSHEND

  Decoration]

  G. P. Putnam's SonsNew York & LondonThe Knickerbocker Press1900

  Copyright, 1899by G. P. Putnam's Sons

  The Knickerbocker Press, New York

  TOMY FRIENDS IN SANTIAGO

  RED AND WHITE

  AND

  IN MEMORY OFA BRINDLED BULLDOG

  I have to thank Senor F. de Arteaga y Pereira, Reader of Spanish in theUniversity of Oxford, for the Spanish version of Heine's poem whichappears in Chapter XXIX.

  A lone pine stands in the Northland On a bald and barren height. He sleeps, by the snows enfolded In a mantle of wintry white. He dreams of a lonely palm-tree, Afar in the morning-land, Consumed with unspoken longing In a waste of burning sand. _After Heine._

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE I.--INDIAN LOVERS 1

  II.--A LONE HAND 12

  III.--BLASTING THE ACEQUIA 22

  IV.--A RACE WITH A MULE 38

  V.--"OJOS AZULES NO MIRAN" 46

  VI.--AN OLD WOUND REOPENED 59

  VII.--DESDEMONA LISTENS 74

  VIII.--CHILDREN OF THE SUN 90

  IX.--A SQUAW FOR A FEE 105

  X.--AN ELOPEMENT 119

  XI.--MY DUCATS AND MY DAUGHTER 131

  XII.--PACIFYING A GHOST 144

  XIII.--A GIRL'S TEARS 163

  XIV--A STERN CHASE 180

  XV.--THE ROD DESCENDS 188

  XVI.--THE FEE IS ACCEPTED 197

  XVII.--MADAM WHAILAHAY 214

  XVIII.--HUNTING A TRAIL 229

  XIX.--RUN TO GROUND 244

  XX.--THE WOLF'S LAIR 258

  XXI.--DRIVING A BARGAIN 269

  XXII.--A WOUNDED MAN 285

  XXIII.--A PICNIC PARTY 297

  XXIV.--WEIGHING THE SILVER 308

  XXV.--A PREHISTORIC HEARTH 323

  XXVI.--THE SNAKE'S VERDICT 340

  XXVII.--AULD ACQUAINTANCE 353

  XXVIII.--ELEVEN TO ONE 366

  XXIX.--PEACE WITH HONOUR 384

  LONE PINE