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TO ALL WHO QUESTION
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THE SKY PILOT



CONTENTS

FAGE

I. GWEN , II

II. GwEN's First Prayers .... 29

III. GwEN's Challenge ... * . 47

IV. Gwen*s Canyon 65

V. The Canyon Flowers .... 81




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s not many days after my arrival in



the Foothill country that I began to hear of
Gwcn.J They all had stories of her. The de-
tiails ™re not many, but the impression was
vivid. She lived remote from that centre of
civilization known as Swan Creek in the pos-
tal guide, but locally as Old Latour's, far up
among the hills near the Devil's Lake, and
from her father's ranch she never ventured.
But some of the men had had glimpses of her
and had come to definite opinions regarding
her.
" What is she like? " I asked Bill one day,
trying to pin him down to something like a
descriptive account of her.
" Like ! She's a terrer," he said, with
slow emphasis, " a holy terrer.'*




at does she

le" considered a moment,
fy^ round as If searching for a
inSWered: *' I dunno."

What do you mean?
you seen her?"
eh! But she ain't like nuthin'."
E itl was quite decided upon this point,
led again.
