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Title: The Free Range

Author: Francis William Sullivan

Release Date: December 12, 2008 [eBook #27511]

Language: English

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THE FREE RANGE

by

ELWELL LAWRENCE

Illustrations by Douglas Duer

[Illustration: They rode needlessly close together and swung their
clasped hands like happy children.]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers :: New York

Copyright 1913 by
W. J. Watt & Company

Published June

To MATHEW WHITE Jr.,
Editor, author, critic, friend.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Flinging The Gauntlet 9
II A Late Arrival 18
III An Unsettled Score 31
IV The Six Pistol Shots 39
V Strategy and a Surprise 50
VI Ugly Company 64
VII You Have Forgotten The Mask 74
VIII Fiendish Revenge 85
IX The Man in The Mask 98
X War Without Quarter 114
XI Made Prisoner 124
XII Juliet Asserts Herself 136
XIII The Heathen Chinee 149
XIV Sentenced 161
XV Cowland Topsy-Turvy 176
XVI A Message By a Strange Hand 190
XVII A Battle in The Dark 203
XVIII The Immortal Ten 217
XIX An Indian Coulee 235
XX Somebody N