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Chapter 1. Back From The Dead
_ CHAPTER I. BACK FROM THE DEAD
Westward the little three-car train chugged its way fussily across the brown prairie toward distant mountains which, in that clear atmosphere, loomed so deceptively near. Standing motionless beside the weather-beaten station shed, the solitary passenger watched it absently, brows drawn into a single dark line above the bridge of his straight nose. Tall, lean, with legs spread apart a bit and shoulders slightly bent, he made a striking figure against that background of brilliant sky and drenching, golden sunlight. For a brief space he did not stir. Then of a sudden, when the train had dwindled to the size of a child‘s toy, he turned abruptly and drew a long, deep breath.
It was a curious transformation. A moment before his face--lined, brooding, somber, oddly pale for that country of universal tan--looked almost old. At least one would have felt it the face of a man who had recently endured a great deal of mental or
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