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Title: The Trail to Yesterday

Author: Charles Alden Seltzer

Release Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #27051]

Language: English

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THE TRAIL TO YESTERDAY

[Illustration: "IF YOU WANT THE PARSON TO DIE, DON'T LOOK
AT ME WHEN HE STEPS IN."]

THE TRAIL TO YESTERDAY

By Charles Alden Seltzer

Author of
"The Two-Gun Man,"
"The Coming of the Law,"
Etc.

With Three Illustrations

A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK

Copyright, 1913, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Woman on the Trail 11
II. The Dim Trail 40
III. Converging Trails 53
IV. This Picture and That 72
V. Dakota Evens a Score 88
VI. Kindred Spirits 111
VII. Bogged Down 121
VIII. Sheila Fans a Flame 146
IX. Strictly Business 163
X. Duncan Adds Two and Two 196
XI. A Parting and a Visit 215
XII. A Meeting on the River Trail 233
XIII. The Shot in the Back 254
XIV. Langford Lays Off the Mask 275
XV. The Parting on the River Trail 303
XVI. Sheriff Allen Takes a Hand 310
XVII. Doubler Talks 323
XVIII. For Dakota 336
XIX. Some Memories 344
XX. Into the Unknown 359

ILLUSTRATIONS

"If you want the parson to die, don't look
at me when he steps in." Frontispiece

"Won't you please get us out of this?" 134

Duncan grasped for his pistol, but the hand holding
it was stamped violently into the earth. 161

THE TRAIL TO YESTERDAY

CHAPTER I

A WOMAN ON THE TRA