The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair ofmoonshiner and feudsman. The knight is a moonshiner's son, and theheroine a beautiful girl perversely christened "The Blight." Twoimpetuous young Southerners fall under the spell of "The Blight's"charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in thelove making of the mountaineers.
Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, some ofMr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives.
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*MYRTLE REED'S NOVELS*
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*LAVENDER AND OLD LACE.*
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romancefinds a modern parallel. The story centers round the coming of love tothe young people on the staff of a newspaper--and it is one of theprettiest, sweetest and quaintest of old fashioned love stories, * * * arare book, exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy,of tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaneity.