?? marks two smudged characters that need to be obtained.
{bean- did encodes, depag, italics, decaption. Couldn't get a
hardcopy for smudged dialect on p 271.}
{jt- reader confirms the letters are "se", so the word is corpse}


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THE MOUNTAINS
BY
STEWART EDWARD WHITE

AUTHOR OF
"THE BLAZED TRAIL," "SILENT PLACES,"
"THE FOREST," ETC.





PREFACE


The author has followed a true sequence of events
practically in all particulars save in respect to the
character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious;
in another sense real. He is real in that he is the