獣人 — エミール・ゾラ
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Heart's Desire Author : Emerson Hough Release date : February 24, 2005 [eBook #15159] Most recently updated: December 14, 2020 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15159 Credits : E-text prepared by Al Haines *** START OF Copyright, 1903, BY OUT WEST COMPANY. Copyright, 1905, BY THE RIDGWAY-THAYER COMPANY. Copyright, 1905, BY EMERSON HOUGH. Copyright, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1905. Reprinted November, 1905: January, April, 1907; November, 1908. Norwood Press J. B. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS 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 CHAPTER II THE DINNER AT HEART'S DESIRE This continuing the Relation of Curly, the Can of Oysters, and the Girl from Kansas; and introducing Others CHAPTER III TRANSGRESSION AT HEART'S DESIRE Beginning the Cause Celebre which arose from Curly's killing the Pig of the Man from Kansas CHAPTER IV THE LAW AT HEART'S DESIRE Continuing the Story of the Pig from Kansas, and the Deep Damnation of his Taking Off CHAPTER V EDEN AT HEART'S DESIRE This being the Story of a Paradise; also showing the Exceeding Loneliness of Adam CHAPTER VI EVE AT HEART'S DESIRE How the Said Eve arrived on the Same Stage with Eastern Capital, to the Interest of All, and the Embarrassment of Some CHAPTER VII TEMPTATION AT HEART'S DESIRE Showing how Paradise was lost through the Strange Performance of a Craven Adam CHAPTER VIII THE CORPORATION AT HEART'S DESIRE This being the Story of a Parrot, Certain Twins, and a Pair of Candy Legs CHAPTER IX CIVILIZATION AT HEART'S DESIRE How the Men of Heart's Desire surrendered to the Softening Seductions of Croquet and Other Pastimes CHAPTER X ART AT HEART'S DESIRE How Tom Osby, Common Carrier, caused Trouble with a Portable Annie Laurie CHAPTER XI OPERA AT HEART'S DESIRE Telling how Two Innocent Travellers by Mere Chance collided with a Side-tracked Star CHAPTER XII THE PRICE OF HEART'S DESIRE Concerning Goods, their Value, and the Delivery of the Same CHAPTER XIII BUSINESS AT HEART'S DESIRE This describing Porter Barkley's Method with a Man, and Tom Osby's Way with a Maid CHAPTER XIV THE GROUND FLOOR AT HEART'S DESIRE Proposing Certain Wonders of Modern Progress, as wrought by Eastern Capital and Able Corporation Counsel CHAPTER XV SCIENCE AT HEART'S DESIRE This being the Story of a Cow Puncher, an Osteopath, and a Cross-eyed Horse CHAPTER XVI THE PARTITION OF HEART'S DESIRE Concerning Real Estate, Love, Friendship, and Other Good and Valuable Considerations CHAPTER XVII TREASON AT HEART'S DESIRE Showing the Dilemma of Dan Anderson, the Doubt of Leading Citizens, and the Artless Performance of a Pastoral Prevaricator CHAPTER XVIII THE MEETING AT HEART'S DESIRE How Benevolent Assimilation was checked by Unexpected Events CHAPTER XIX COMMERCE AT HEART'S DESIRE Showing Wonders of the Thirst of McGinnis, and the Faith of Whiteman the Jew CHAPTER XX MEDICINE AT HEART'S DESIRE How the Girl from the States kept the Set of Twins from being broken CHAPTER XXI JUSTICE AT HEART'S DESIRE The Story of a Sheriff and Some Bad Men; showing also a Day's Work, and a Man's Medicine CHAPTER XXII ADVENTURE AT HEART'S DESIRE The Strange Story of the King of Gee-Whiz, and his Unusual Experience in Foreign Parts CHAPTER XXIII PHILOSOPHY AT HEART'S DESIRE Showing further the Uncertainty of Human Events, and the Exceeding Resourcefulness of Mr. Thomas Osby CHAPTER XXIV THE CONSPIRACY AT HEART'S DESIRE This being the Story of a Sheepherder, Two Warm Personal Friends, and their Love-letter to a Beautiful Queen CHAPTER XXV ROMANCE AT HEART'S DESIRE The Pleasing Recountal of an Absent Knight, a Gentle Lady, and an Ananias with Spurs CHAPTER XXVI THE GIRL AT HEART'S DESIRE The Story of a Surprise, a Success, and Something Else Very Much Better LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: "He looked up—to see her standing at his door!" "'The umpire decides that you've got to check your guns during the game.'" "A voice which sang of a face that was the fairest, and of a dark blue eye." "'Something has got to be did, and did mighty blame quick.'" 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 across the plains. We could not see even so far as the Pecos, though it seemed from our lofty situation that we looked quite to the ultimate, searching the utter ends of all the earth. "Yours is up that-a-way;" Curly pointed to the northeast. "Mine was that-a-way." He shifted his leg in the saddle as he turned to the right and swept a comprehensive hand toward the east, meaning perhaps Texas, perhaps a series of wild frontiers west of the Lone Star state. I noticed the nice distinction in Curly's tenses. He knew the man m