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THE HEART OF THE DESERT

(Kut-Le of the Desert)

by

HONORE WILLSIE

Author of "Still Jim"

With Frontispiece in Colors by V. Herbert Dunton

A. L. Burt Company, Publishers
114-120 East Twenty-third Street ---- New York
Published by Arrangement with Frederick A. Stokes Company

1913







[Frontispiece: Side by side, they rode off into the desert sunset.]





CONTENTS

CHAPTER

     I  THE VALLEY OF THE PECOS
    II