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FRANK OF FREEDOM HILL

BY SAMUEL A. DERIEUX

WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, BY THE CROWELL COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

DR. BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS

WHO BELIEVED I COULD WRITE

CONTENTS

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I. THE DESTINY OF DAN VI 1

II. PARADISE REGAINED 28

III. THE BOLTER 51

IV. OLD FRANK SEES IT THROUGH 74

V. AN ACT OF GOD 100

VI. COMET 122

VII. THE CRISIS IN 25 147

VIII. THE TRIAL IN TOM BELCHER'S STORE 167

IX. THE PURSUIT 194

X. THE LITTLE BOY IN THE BLACKBERRY PATCH 219

XI. BLOOD MONEY 245

XII. THE CALL OF HOME 266

FRANK OF FREEDOM HILL

THE DESTINY OF DAN VI

The baggageman slid open the side door of the car. With a rattle of his chain Dan sprang to his feet. A big red Irish setter was Dan, of his breed sixth, and most superb, his colour wavy-bronze, his head erect and noble, his eyes eloquent with that upward-looking appeal of hunting dog to hunting man.