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The Mountain Girl
The Mountain Girl

doctor as I see it, and see what he thinks of it."

  

"As you please, dear."

  

"It's like this. Have you seen anything of that girl or observed her much?"

  

"I certainly have."

  

"Then, of course, you can see that she is one of the best of the mountain people, can't you? Well! She has promised to marry—promised to marry—think of it! one of the wildest, most reckless of those mountain boys, one that she knows very well has been in illicit distilling. He is a lawbreaker in that way; and, more than that, he drinks, and in a drunken row he shot dead his friend."

  

"Ah!" David rose, turned away, and again paced the piazza. Then he returned to his seat. "I see. The young man I tried to help off when I first arrived."

  

"Yes. There he is."

  

"I see. Handsome type."

  

"He's down here now, keeping quiet. How long it will last, no one knows. Justice is lax in the mountains. His father shot three or four men before he died himself of a gunshot wound which he received while resisting the officers of the law. If there's a man left in the family to follow this thing up, Frale will be

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