The Key of the Fields and Boldero

by Henry Milner Rideout

Excerpt from The Key of the Fields and Boldero
Afternoon drowsiness, early spring warmth, covered the old stone ramparts of Aigues-Mortes. Through heavy embrasures from which long-forgotten sentinels had watched Saint Louis and his Crusaders marching to their fleet, the sunshine now cast broad stripes and wedges of light over a deserted platform. In one of the brightest of these, under a turret, Jackdabos sat cross-legged, refitting a block of stone into the floor. A big brindle cur, his friend Puig's dog, lay snoring beside him. The young man's trowel made the only other sound, as it clinked on the aged stone, or scraped fresh mortar neatly into the surrounding crack.
"There!" sighed Jackdabos, when he had made all smooth round the block. "Now let us put our seal on this work."
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385 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Henry Milner Rideout (1877-1927) was a native of Calais, Maine. Author of sixteen novels, twenty-three short stories and novellas, and a biographical memoir, he also was editor of one college textbook, as well as co-editor of three others. Many of his stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.