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Title: The Lookout Man

Author: B. M. Bower

Release Date: April 15, 2005 [EBook #15625]

Language: English

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GOOD INDIAN
THE UPHILL CLIMB
THE GRINGOS
THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE
THE FLYING U'S LAST STAND
JEAN OF THE LAZY A
THE PHANTOM HERD
THE HERITAGE OF THE SIOUX
STARR, OF THE DESERT
THE LOOKOUT MAN

[Illustration: She was, after all, the goddess she looked, he thought
whimsically. Frontispiece. _See page_ 122.]

THE LOOKOUT MAN

By B. M. Bower

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
H. WESTON TAYLOR

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1917

Published, August, 1917

VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I SOME TIME!

II "THANKS FOR THE CAR"

III TO THE FEATHER RIVER COUNTRY AND FREEDOM

IV JACK FINDS HIMSELF IN POSSESSION OF A JOB

V "IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY," SANG JACK

VI MISS ROSE FORWARD

VII GUARDIAN OF THE FORESTS

VIII IN WHICH A GIRL PLAYS BILLIARDS ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP

IX LIKE THE BOY HE WAS

X WHEN FORESTS ARE ABLAZE

XI SYMPATHY AND ADVICE

XII KATE FINDS SOMETHING TO WORRY OVER

XIII JACK SHOULD HAVE A HIDE-OUT

XIV MURPHY HAS A HUMOROUS MOOD

XV A CAVE DWELLER JACK WOULD BE

XVI MIKE GOES SPYING ON THE SPIES

XVII PENITENCE, REAL AND UNREAL

XVIII HANK BROWN PROVES THAT HE CAN READ TRACKS

XIX TROUBLE ROCKS THE PAN, LOOKING FOR GRAINS OF GOLD

XX IGNORANCE TAKES THE TRAIL OF DANGER

XXI GOLD OF REPENTANCE, SUNLIGHT OF LOVE AND A MAN GONE MAD

XXII THE MISERERE OF MOTHERHOOD

XXIII GRIEF, AND HOPE THAT DIED HARD

XXIV TROUBLE FINDS THE GOLD THAT WAS IN THEM

CHAPTER ONE

SOME TIME!

From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in
with the heavy i