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THE

STRAND MAGAZINE

_An Illustrated Monthly_

Vol. 5, Issue. 29.

May 1893

[Illustration: "EXCUSE OUR INTRUSION, MADAM."

(_In the Shadow of the Sierras._)]




IN THE SHADOW OF THE SIERRAS

BY IZA DUFFUS HARDY.


Barbara Thorne sat leaning her head on her hand, looking at a photograph
that lay on the table beneath her eyes. She had not intended to look for
_that_ when she pulled out a dusty drawer full of old letters, papers,
and account-books to arrange and set in order. But when in the course of
her rummaging and tidying she found that picture in her hand, she paused
in her task. The neglected