| Tales of the Klondyke Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798686410541 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.43 lbs) 138 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...r father, with lying words, false promises, I know not what; so that the priest stiffened his neck and would not make us that we might live one with the other. As at the beginning it was the church which would not bless my birth, so now it was the church which refused me marriage and put the blood of men upon my hands. Bien Thus have I cause to love the church. So I struck the priest on his woman's mouth, and we took swift horses, the girl and I, to Fort Pierre, where was a minister of good heart. But hot on our trail was her father, and brothers, and other men he had gathered to him. And we fought, our horses on the run, till I emptied three saddles and the rest drew off and went on to Fort Pierre. Then we took east, the girl and I, to the hills and forests, and we lived one with the other, and we were not married, --the work of the good church which I love like a son."But mark you, for this is the strangeness of woman, the way of which no man may understand. One of the saddles I emptied was that... |
