[Gutenberg 28683] • The Roof Tree

Charles Neville Buck (1879-1930) was the author of The Key to Yesterday (1910), The Lighted Match (1911), The Portal of Dreams (1912), The Call of the Cumberlands (1913), The Battle Cry (1914), The Code of the Mountains (1915), Destiny (1916), The Tyranny of Weakness (1917), When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry (1918), A Pagan of the Hills (1919), The Tempering (1920), The Roof Tree (1921), Alias Red Ryan (1923), The Rogue's Badge (1924) and The Flight to the Hills (1926). "Between the smoke-darkened walls of the mountain cabin still murmured the last echoes of the pistol's bellowing, and it seemed a voice of everlasting duration to the shock-sickened nerves of those within. "