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Title: The Short Cut

Author: Jackson Gregory

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THE SHORT CUT

by

JACKSON GREGORY

Author of "Under Handicap," "The Outlaw"

With Illustrations by Frank Tenney Johnson

[Frontispiece: Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice,
half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.]

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1916
Copyright, 1916
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

TO

"MOTHER" McGLASHAN

AND

GENERAL C. F. McGLASHAN

CONTENTS

I THE TRAGEDY
II THE SHADOW
III SUSPICION
IV THE WHITE HUNTRESS
V THE HOME COMING OF RED RECKLESS
VI THE PROMISE OF LITTLE SAXON
VII THE GLADNESS THAT SINGS
VIII "BLUFF, AND THE GAMBLER WINS!"
IX THE CONTEMPT OF SLEDGE HUME
X SHANDON'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
XI WANDA'S DISCOVERY
XII THE TALES OF MR. WILLIE DART
XIII SLEDGE HUME MAKES A CALL AND LAYS A WAGER
XIV IN WANDA'S CAVE
XV WILLIE DART PICKS A LOCK
XVI AND SOLVES A FASCINATING MYSTERY
XVII "WHERE'S THAT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND?"
XVIII THE TRUTH
XIX SHANDON TAKES HIS STAND
XX HUME PLAYS A TRUMP
XXI THE SHORT CUT
XXII THE FUGITIVE
XXIII HELGA STRAWN PLAYS THE GAME
XXIV UNDER THE SURFACE
XXV RED RECKLESS ON LITTLE SAXON
XXVI THE LAUGHTER OF HELGA STRAWN
XXVII HUME RIDES THE ONE OPEN TRAIL
XXVIII "IT IS HOME!"

ILLUSTRATIONS

Surely the rider was just what the owner of the voice, half laughing,
half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be.

"I want just to smoke and watch you an