The Thirteenth Man by Mrs. Coulson Kernahan

The Thirteenth Man
Mrs. Coulson Kernahan
New York: G. W. Dillingham Company
Copyright 1910
318 pages

The front hinge is broken but the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are lightly tanning and have scattered brown age spots. The cover is rubbed, has tiny holes on the front hinge and the spine is very faded.  Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: A strange, mournful song broke the stillness of a hot July afternoon, and caused two pedestrians to come to a halt in a lane on which dust lay thick. On either side were high banks, surmounted by unclipped hedges. One of the pedestrians, a young and athletic man, had climbed the bank nearer to him in a second, and was peering through a gap in the hedge, where nothing met his gaze but miles of smiling country, dotted by farms at long intervals, a bungalow covered with rambler roses, and a white house on the border of a wood...  (00888)