King, Basil, 1859-1928 / 2008-07-01 00:00:00

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[Illustration: "There are a hundred men beating the mountain to find you"]


The Wild Olive
A Novel
By the author of
The Inner Shrine

Illustrated by
Lucius Hitchcock
New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Published by Arrangement with Harper & Brothers


Copyright, 1910, by Harper & Brothers
All Rights Reserved

Published May, 1910
Printed in the United States of America


Part I
Ford


I

Finding himself in the level wood-road, whose open aisle drew a long,
straight streak across the sky, still luminous with the late-lingering
Adirondack twilight, the tall young fugitive, hatless, coatless, and
barefooted, paused a minute for reflection. As he paused, he listened; but
all distinctiveness of sound was lost in the play of the wind, up hill and
down dale, through chasm and over crag, in those uncounted leagues of
forest. It was only a summer wind, soft and from the south; but its murmur
had the sweep of the eternal breath, while, when it waxed in power, it
rose like the swell of some great cosmic organ.
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