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Title: Trailin'!

Author: Max Brand

Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11093]

Language: English

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TRAILIN'!

By Max Brand

1919

To
ROBERT HOBART DAVIS
Maker of Books and Men

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I.------"LA-A-A-DIES AN' GEN'L'MUN"

II.-----SPORTING CHANCE

III.----SOCIAL SUICIDE

IV.-----A SESSION OF CHAT

V.------ANTHONY IS LEFT IN THE DARK

VI.-----JOHN BARD

VII.----BLUEBEARD'S ROOM

VIII.---MARTY WILKES

IX.-----"THIS PLACE FOR REST"

X.------A BIT OF STALKING

XI.-----THE QUEST BEGINS

XII.----THE FIRST DAY

XIII.---A TOUCH OF CRIMSON

XIV.----LEMONADE

XV.-----THE DARKNESS IN ELDARA

XVI.----BLUFF

XVII.---BUTCH RETURNS

XVIII.--FOOLISH HABITS

XIX.----THE CANDLE

XX.-----JOAN

XXI.----THE SWIMMING OF THE SAVERACK

XXII.---DREW SMILES

XXIII.--THE COMEDY SETTING

XXIV.---"SAM'L HALL"

XXV.----HAIR LIKE THE SUNSHINE

XXVI.---"THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON"

XXVII.--THE STAGE

XXVIII.-SALLY BREAKS A MIRROR

XXIX.---THE SHOW

XXX.----THE LAMP

XXXI.---NASH STARTS THE FINISH

XXXII.--TO "APPREHEND" A MAN

XXXIII.-NOTHING NEW

XXXIV.--CRITICISM

XXXV.---ABANDON

XXXVI.--JERRY WOOD

XXXVII.-"TODO ES PERDO"

XXXVIII.-BACON

XXXIX.--LEGAL MURDER

XL.-----PARTNERS

XLI.----SALLY WEEPS

_The characters, places, incidents and situations in this book are
imaginary and have no relation to any person, place or actual
happening_.

CHAPTER I

"LA-A-A-DIES AN' GEN'L'MUN"

All through the exhibition the two sat unmoved; yet on the whole it was
the best Wild West show that ever stirred sawdust in Madison Square
Garden and it brought thunders of applause from the crowded house. Even
if the performance could not stir these two, at least the throng of
spectators should have drawn them, for all New York was there, from the
richest to the poorest; neither the combined audiences of a seven-day
race, a prize-fight, or a community singing festival would