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The Everlasting Whisper, by Jackson Gregory
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Title: The Everlasting Whisper
Author: Jackson Gregory
Release Date: November 22, 2003 [EBook #10213]
Language: English
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THE EVERLASTING WHISPER
A Tale of the California Wilderness.
By JACKSON GREGORY
To Maxwell E. Perkins
With The Author'S Grateful Recognition Of His Countless Sympathetic Criticisms And Suggestions
Chapter I
It was springtime in the California Sierra. Never were skies bluer, never did the golden sun-flood steep the endless forest lands in richer life-giving glory. Ridge after ridge the mountains swept on and fell away upon one side until in the vague distances they sank to the monotonous level of the Sacramento Valley; down there it was already summer, and fields were hot and brown. Ridge after ridge the mountains stretched on the other side, rising steadily, growing ever more august and mighty and rocky; on their crests across the blue gorges the snow was dazzling white and winter held stubbornly on at altitudes of seven thousand feet. Thus winter, springtime, and ripe, fruit-dropping summer coexisted, touching fingers across the seve