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  • WHEN A WITCH IS YOUNG
    PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
    Excerpt: "The first, the last—the only King the Americans ever had, was dead. It was the 13th day of August, in the year 1676. The human emotions of the Puritan people of Massachusetts tugged at the shackles of a long repression and broke them asunder, in the seemly town of Plymouth. King Philip, the mighty Sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, had been slain. His warriors were scat...

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  • AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
    PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
    That he had made no reply whatsoever to Fenton's proposition he failed to realize till Gerald spoke again. "Well, Sid," demanded that impetuous lieutenant of finance, "gone dumb? Perhaps I haven't made it plain," and he particularized on his fingers. "You get an ocean trip of eight or ten weeks' duration, tropic sun at its best, leisurely business without a fleck of bother, abs...

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  • THE CRYSTAL SCEPTRE, A STORY OF ADVENTURE
    PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
    Excerpt: "We had lost all control of the wild balloon. It was driven ahead of the wind like a shred of rags, the car trailing behind at a fearful angle, for many of the ropes were broken and all the others were twisted in a hopeless tangle. Nearly all our ballast had fallen into the angry sea beneath us an hour after the storm first caught us in its whirl." ...

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  • THE FURNACE OF GOLD
    PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
    The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and ...

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  • BRUVVER JIM'S BABY
    PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
    Excerpt: "It all commenced that bright November day of the Indian rabbit drive and hunt. The motley army of the piute tribe was sweeping tremendously across a sage-brush valley of Nevada, their force two hundred braves in number. They marched abrest, some thirty yards apart, and formed a line that was more than two miles long. ...

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