THE ROOF TREE

BOOKS BY
CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK

Battle Cry, The
Call of the Cumberlands, The
Code of the Mountains, The
Destiny
Key To Yesterday, The
Lighted Match, The
Pagan of the Hills, A
Portal of Dreams, The
Roof Tree, The
Tempering, The
Tyranny of Weakness, The
When Bear Cat Went Dry


THE ROOF TREE

BY

CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK

ILLUSTRATED
BY
LEE F. CONREY

GARDEN CITY, N. Y., AND TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1921

COPYRIGHT, 1920, 1921, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

With the wish that it were a richer
and worthier tribute, this book is
lovingly and gratefully dedicated

TO MY WIFE


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"She stood there a little shyly at first; as slenderand as gracefully upright as a birch"Frontispiece
 FACING PAGE
"'Hit almost seems like,' she whispered, 'thatther old tree's got a spell in hit—ter bewitchfolks with'"66
"Even Bas Rowlett, whose nerves were keyedfor an ordeal, started and almost let theleaning bridegroom fall"114
"Dorothy flashed past him ... and a fewseconds later he heard the clean-lipped snapof the rifle in a double report"186

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THE ROOF TREE

CHAPTER I

Between the smoke-darkened walls of themountain cabin still murmured the last echoesof the pistol's bellowing, and it seemed a voiceof everlasting duration to the shock-sickened nervesof those within.

First it had thund

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