ILLUSTRATIONS
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- "The doctor scowled over his glasses as he listened" [Frontispiece]
- "'I will not go with you!'" [29]
- "'He is Tesuque, the rain-god'" [55]
- "'I hoped you'd be able to lend me a hand'" [101]
- "'Do not make the thread short, Lolita'" [123]
- "'Tia, you are a lady of fortune'" [153]
THE
POWER OF CONSOLATION
A PRAIRIE INFANTA
CHAPTER ONE
THE POWER OF CONSOLATION
At the first glance there appeared to be nothing unusual in the scene confronting Miss Jane Combs as she stood, broad and heavy, in her doorway that May morning, looking up and down the single street of the little Colorado mining-town.