The Desert Healer

THE
DESERT HEALER
E. M. Hull
Author of “The Sheik”
McCLELLAND & STEWART, LIMITED
PUBLISHERS TORONTO
Copyright Canada 1923 by
McCLELLAND & STEWART, Limited
Printed in Canada
Press of The Hunter-Rose Co., Limited
THE DESERT HEALER
The slanting rays of the afternoon sun, unusually powerful for the time of year, lay warmly on the southern slopes of a tiny spur of the Little Atlas Mountains, glowing redly on the patches of bare earth and naked rock cropping out between the scrubby undergrowth that straggled sparsely up the hill-side, and flickering through the leaves of a clump of olive trees huddled at its base where three horses stood tethered, lazily switching at the troublesome flies with their long tails and shifting their feet uneasily from time to time.