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SALOMY JANE
BY
BRET HARTE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HARRISON FISHER AND
ARTHUR I. KELLER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE
1910

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY BRET HARTE
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
_Published October 1910_


CONTENTS
I A KISS AND AN ESCAPE 1
II THE LADY'S REFLECTIONS 19
III THE KISS REPEATED 35
IV ANOTHER ESCAPE 59
A KISS AND AN ESCAPE
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I

Only one shot had been fired. It had gone wide of its mark,--the
ringleader of the Vigilantes,--and had left Red Pete, who had fired
it, covered by their rifles and at their mercy. For his hand had been
cramped by hard riding, and his eye distracted by their sudden onset,
and so the inevitable end had come. He submitted sullenly to his
captors; his companion fugitive and horse-thief gave up the protracted
struggle with a feeling not unlike relief.
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