Somewhere south in Sonora

by Will Levington Comfort

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

—⬧—

	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]