LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| "She stood there a little shyly at first; as slender and as gracefully upright as a birch" | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| "'Hit almost seems like,' she whispered, 'that ther old tree's got a spell in hit—ter bewitch folks with'" | [66] |
| "Even Bas Rowlett, whose nerves were keyed for an ordeal, started and almost let the leaning bridegroom fall" | [114] |
| "Dorothy flashed past him ... and a few seconds later he heard the clean-lipped snap of the rifle in a double report" | [186] |