THE SILENT CALL
BY
EDWIN MILTON ROYLE
AUTHOR OF "THE SQUAW-MAN," "THE STRUGGLE EVERLASTING,"
"FRIENDS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK
Published by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
EDWIN MILTON ROYLE
Published May, 1910
To
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
WHOSE YOUNG HEARTS HAVE PRESERVED THE IDEALS OF
OLD-FASHIONED ROMANCE THROUGH FIFTY-THREE YEARS OF
WEDDED LIFE, THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR
April 12th, 1910
THE SILENT CALL
CHAPTER I
Not even snow is as white as these great masses ofcongealed foam floating in a deep blue sky, sixthousand feet above the sea, and yet somewhere out ofthis deep cool infinity flamed a sun that searched themesa until it blistered and cracked. The alkali plainquivered and burst into spirals of heat that werevisible to the eye. A cloud of dust hung like whitesmoke above the fiery trail over which a band ofIndian police was slowly and painfully crawling.This dust is very penetrating and very irritating.The reins hung limp on the ponies' necks and theirheads swung low as though they looked for a place tosink down.
As far as the eye could see you would have knownthat they were Indians. The uniform furnishedthem by the government is a dark purplish blue witha red piping down the trousers. It's a plain affair,but each Indian wears it with a dif BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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