Somewhere South in Sonora
SOMEWHERE SOUTH
IN SONORA
A NOVEL
BY
WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1925
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS
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| Prologue: Old Lights of the Rio Brava | [3] | |
| I. | Thirty Years Late | [23] |
| II. | At Heaslep’s Ranch | [29] |
| III. | The Leather-Store | [35] |
| IV. | ‘Are You Doomed?’ | [44] |
| V. | ‘I, Robert Leadley—’ | [54] |
| VI. | The Listening Mare | [64] |
| VII. | The Soft Side of a Saddle | [71] |
| VIII. | Heaslep’s Again | [78] |
| IX. | Initiation | [87] |
| X. | ‘Water is for Horses’ | [94] |
| XI. | Gas and Guns | [101] |
| XII. | Flashlight and Fawnskin | [106] |
| XIII. | Vallejo’s Lines | [113] |
| XIV. | A Letter | [119] |
| XV. | Tucson | [120] |
| XVI. | Thoroughbreds Enter | [131] |
| XVII. | The Art of Dying Well | [138] |
| XVIII. | One Sang with Guitar | [146] |
| XIX. | A Corner of the Wall | [153] |
| XX. | The Two Who had not Heard | [160] |
| XXI. | The Rio Moreno Bridge | [167] |
| XXII. | Framed in a Dobe Gateway | [173] |
| XXIII. | Fenceless Foothills of Sonora | [178] |
| XXIV. | Sheath-Knife | [187] |
| XXV. | Elbert Learns to Wait | [196] |
| XXVI. | Silence | [203] |
| XXVII. | Words | [206] |
| XXVIII. | ‘Like the Virgin Speaking—’ | [211] |
| XXIX. | High Country | [218] |
| XXX. | Tucson Again | [226] |
Somewhere South in Sonora