THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE

BY

JOHN FOX, JR.

ILLUSTRATED BY F. C. YOHN






To F. S.






THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE


I


She sat at the base of the big tree--her little sunbonnet pushed
back, her arms locked about her knees, her bare feet gathered
under her crimson gown and her deep eyes fixed on the smoke in the
valley below. Her breath was still coming fast between her parted