Wild Youth, Complete

Orlando Guise leaned lazily on the neck of the broncho he was riding, peering between its ears, over the lonely prairie, to the sunset which was making beautiful the western sky...

Students of life have noticed constantly that moral distinctions are not matters of principle but of certain peremptory rules found on nice calculations of the social mind. In t...

Burlingame had the best practice of any lawyer in Askatoon, although his character had its shady side. The prairie standards were not low; but tolerance is natural where the com...

Askatoon had never lost its interest for Mazarine and his wife since the day the Mayor had welcomed them at the railway station. Askatoon was not a petty town. Its career had be...

“Aw, Doctor dear, there’s manny that’s less use in the wurruld than Chinamen, and I’d like to see more o’ them here-away,” remarked Patsy Kernaghan to the Young Doctor in the sp...

Patsy Kernaghan was in his element in the garden with which Norah Doyle had decorated the brown bosom of the prairie. It had verdant shrubs, green turf, thick fringes of flowers...

The old man led the way outside the house, as though to be rid of his visitor as soon as possible. This was so obvious that, for an instant, the Young Doctor was disposed to try...

The Young Doctor had had a trying day. Certain of his cases had given him anxiety; his drives had been long and fatiguing; he had had little sleep for several nights; and he was...

As the Young Doctor had said, Orlando Guise did not look like a real, simon-pure “cowpuncher.” He had the appearance of being dressed for the part, like an actor who has never m...

Askatoon never included the Mazarines in its social scheme. Certainly Tralee was some distance from the town, but, apart from that, the new-comers remained incongruous, alien an...

Out on the prairie under the light of the stars a man had fought the first great battle of his life, and had emerged victorious. There are no drawn battles in the struggles of t...

Mazarine discovered the flight of Louise soon after she had gone. He had not been five hundred yards from the house since she returned with Orlando after the night spent upon th...

Orlando Guise’s mother was lacking in the caution which mothers generally have where their men-children are concerned. If she had had sense, she would have insisted on removing...

Patsy Kernaghan regarded Tralee as a kind of Lost Paradise, for the most part because it had passed from the hands of a son of the Catholic Church into those of the “prayin’ Met...

Joel Mazarine did not take the trail to Tralee immediately after he found his wagon and horses in the shed of the Methodist Meeting House. As he drove through the main street of...

From the beginning, Askatoon had had more character and idiosyncrasy than any other town in the West. Perhaps that was because many of its citizens had marked personality, while...

Between two sunrises Louise Mazarine had seen her old world pass in a flash of flame and a new world trembling with a new life spread out before her; had come to know what her o...

Like Joel Mazarine on his journey from Askatoon, Orlando, on his journey from Nolan Doyle’s ranch, was absorbed, but his reflections were as different from those of the Master o...

I. THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION II. “MY NAME IS LOUISE” III. “I HAVE FOUGHT WITH BEASTS AT EPHESUS” IV. TWO SIDES TO A BARGAIN V. ORLANDO HAS AN ADVENTURE VI. “THINGS MUST HAPP...

X. THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE XI. LOUISE XII. MAN UNNATURAL XIII. ORLANDO GIVES A WARNING XIV. FILION AND FIONA--ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN XV. OUTWARD BOUND XVI. AT THE CROSS TRAILS XVII...