{"id":2549,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=2950"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:41:49","slug":"2950","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=2950","title":{"rendered":"The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"325\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/ordeal.jpg\" width=\"248\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#008080;\"><font size=\"3\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Nowhere could the idea of peace be more serenely, more majestically, expressed. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: x-large; line-height: 38.4000015258789px; text-align: -webkit-center;\"><!--more--><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"><strong>The lofty purple mountains limited the horizon, and in their multitude and imposing symmetry bespoke the vast intentions of beneficent creation.<\/strong><\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">The valley, glooming low, harbored all the shadows. The air was still, the sky as pellucid as crystal, and where a crag projected boldly from the forests, the growths of balsam fir extending almost to the brink, it seemed as if the myriad fibres of the summit-line of foliage might be counted, so finely drawn, so individual, was each against the azure.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Below the boughs the road swept along the crest of the crag and thence curved inward, and one surveying the scene from the windows of a bungalow at no great distance could look straight beyond the point of the precipice and into the heart of the sunset, still aflare about the west.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">But the realization of solitude was poignant and might well foster fear. It was too wild a country, many people said, for quasi-strangers, and the Briscoes were not justified in lingering so long at their summer cottage here in the Great Smoky Mountains after the hotel of the neighboring springs was closed for the season, and its guests and employees all vanished town-ward.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Hitherto, however, the Briscoes had flouted the suggestion, protesting that this and not the spring was the &quot;sweet o&#39; the year.&quot; The autumn always found the fires flaring on the cosy hearths of their pretty bungalow, and they were wont to gaze entranced on the chromatic pageantry of the forests as the season waned.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Presently the Indian summer would steal upon them unaware, with its wild sweet airs, the burnished glamours of its soft red sun, its dreamy, poetic, amethystine haze.<\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\">Now, too, came the crowning opportunity of sylvan sport. 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