120
XIV Lawler's "Nerve" 127
XV Concerning an Outlaw 142
XVI A "Norther" 148
XVII The Line Cabin 158
XVIII Storm-Driven 165
XIX Death at a Door 172
XX The "Killing" 183
XXI Chance--and a Man 186
XXII The White Waste 191
XXIII A Woman's Wiles 196
XXIV Della's Handkerchief 208
XXV In Which a Man Plots 215
XXVI A Menace Appears 225
XXVII Evidence 229
XXVIII The Trail Horde 234
XXIX Antrim Strikes 246
XXX A Woman Lies 253
XXXI "Jail's Empty, Kane!" 257
XXXII Red King Runs 263
XXXIII The Fight at the Cabin 270
XXXIV "Good Old Shorty!" 283
XXXV Haunting Memories 288
XXXVI A Man Meditates Vengeance 298
XXXVII The Trap 303
XXXVIII The Governor's Guns 310
XXXIX Slade's Prisoner 314
XL Primitive Instincts 318
XLI The Clean-up 323
XLII Going East 331
XLIII The Majesty of Peace 341

THE TRAIL HORDE

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CHAPTER I

CONCERNING MORALS

There were fifty thousand acres within view of the ranchhouse--virgin
grass land dotted with sage, running over a wide level, into little
hills, and so on to an upland whose rise was so gradual that it could be
seen only from a distance, best from the gallery of the ranchhouse.

The first tang of autumn was in the sage-scented breeze that swept the
county, and the tawny valley, basking in the warm sunlight that came