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Prepared by David Reed haradda@aol.com or davidr@inconnect.com A Mountain Europa By John Fox, Jr. TO JAMES LANE ALLEN I As Clayton rose to his feet in the still air, the tree-tops began to tremble in the gap below him, and a rippling ran through the leaves up the mountain-side. Drawing off his hat he stretched
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tell her no more than she knew, however, and then she said she was sure she had seen the Wild Dog herself that afternoon, sitting on his horse in the bushes near a station in Wildcat Valley. She was sure that he saw her, and his face had frightened her. I knew her fright was
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