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The Eagle’s Heart

CHAPTER X
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THE YOUNG EAGLE MOUNTS After the momentary sorrow of parting from his good friend, Delmar, the youth's heart began to expand with joy.

He lifted his arms and shook them as the young eagle exults.

He was alone on the wide swells of plain enacting a part of the wild life of which he had read, and for which he had longed.

He was riding a swift horse straight toward the mystic mountains of the West, leaving behind him the miserable wars of the sheep herders and the cattlemen.

Every leap of his sturdy pony carried him deeper into the storied land and farther from the tumult and shame of the night at Running Bear.
He was not one to morbidly analyze, not even to feel remorse.


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