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Title: The Sheriff's Son

Author: William MacLeod Raine

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THE SHERIFF'S SON

by

WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

Author of
The Yukon Trail, Wyoming, etc.

Illustrated by Harold Cue

[Frontispiece: When Meldrum came in answer to her summons, he met the
shock of his life.]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1917 and 1918, by Frank A. Munsey Company
Copyright, 1918, by William Macleod Raine
All Rights Reserved
Published April 1918

TO

ROBERT H. DAVIS

WHO WITH HIS USUAL GENEROSITY TO WRITERS

MADE THE AUTHOR A PRESENT

OF THE GERM IDEA

OF THIS PLOT

Contents

Foreword
I. Dingwell Gives Three Cheers.
II. Dave Caches a Gunnysack
III. The Old-Timer Sits into a Big Game
IV. Royal Beaudry Hears a Call
V. The Hill Girl
VI. "Cherokee Street"
VII. Jess Tighe Spins a Web
VIII. Beulah Asks Questions
IX. The Man on the Bed
X. Dave Takes a Ride
XI. Tighe Weaves his Web Tighter
XII. Stark Fear
XIII. Beulah Interferes
XIV. Personally Escorted
XV. The Bad Man
XVI. Roy is Invited to Take a Drink
XVII. Roy Improves the Shining Hours
XVIII. Rutherford Answers Questions
XIX. Beaudry Blows a Smoke Wreath
XX. At the Lazy Double D
XXI. Roy Rides his Paint Hoss
XXII. Miss Rutherford Speaks her Mind
XXIII. In the Pit
XXIV. The Bad Man Decides not to Shoot
XXV. Two and a Camp-Fire
XXVI. The Sins of the Fathers