EBOOK UNDER HANDICAP ***
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Under Handicap
A NOVEL
By JACKSON GREGORY
AUTHOR OF
"The Outlaw," Etc.
With Frontispiece
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with HARPER & BROTHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1914 BY HARPER & BROTHERS
TO
"MY LADY"
LOTUS McGLASHAN GREGORY
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
UNDER HANDICAP
CHAPTER I
Outside there was shimmering heat and dry, thirsty sand, miles upon
miles of it flashing by in a gray, barren blur. A flat, arid,
monotonous land, vast, threatening, waterless, treeless. Its immensity
awed, its bleakness depressed. Man's work here seemed but to
accentuate the puny insignificance of man. Man had come upon the
desert and had gone, leaving only a line of telegraph-poles with their
glistening wires, two gleaming parallel rails of burning steel to mark
his passing.
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