Chapter 1. The Land Of Heart‘s Desire
_ CHAPTER I. THE LAND OF HEART‘S DESIRE
This being in Part the Story of Curly, the Can of Oysters, and the Girl from Kansas
"It looks a long ways acrost from here to the States," said Curly, as we pulled up our horses at the top of the Capitan divide. We gazed out over a vast, rolling sea of red-brown earth which stretched far beyond and below the nearer foothills, black with their growth of stunted pines. This was a favorite pausing place of all travellers between the county-seat and Heart‘s Desire； partly because it was a summit reached only after a long climb from either side of the divide； partly, perhaps, because it was a notable view-point in a land full of noble views. Again, it may have been a customary tarrying point because of some vague feeling shared by most travellers who crossed this trail,--the same feeling which made Curly, hardened citizen as he was of the land west of the Pecos, turn a speculative eye eastward

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