The Tell-Tale Horse

The Tell-tale Horse is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2007 by American Artist, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 2007 by Lee Gildea, Jr.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Brown, Rita Mae.

The tell-tale horse: a novel / Rita Mae Brown.

p. cm.

1. Arnold, Jane (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women hunters—Fiction. 3. Foxhunting—Fiction. 4. Virginia—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.R698T46 2008 813'.54—dc22 2007021619

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eISBN: 978-0-345-50217-9

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