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Title: The She Boss
A Western Story

Author: Arthur Preston Hankins

Release Date: August 27, 2006 [EBook #19129]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "He was flailing right and left with a huge pine knot in
either hand."]

THE SHE BOSS

A WESTERN STORY

BY

ARTHUR PRESTON HANKINS

AUTHOR OF

THE HERITAGE OF THE HILLS, THE JUBILEE GIRL, ETC.

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS ---------- NEW YORK

Copyright, 1922

By CHELSEA HOUSE

The She Boss

(Printed In the United States of America)

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. BEAR VALLEY'S DRONE
II. OUT OF THE WOODS
III. SAN FRANCISCO
IV. TWITTER OR TWEET
V. A RIVAL
VI. THE FIRE
VII. HIRAM, THE BUTTERFLY
VIII. LUCY'S AMBITIONS
IX. HIRAM WAKES UP
X. JERKLINE JO
XI. THE RETURN OF JERKLINE JO
XII. SKINNERS FROM FRISCO
XIII. THE START FOR JULIA
XIV. A WIRE TO JULIA
XV. MR. TWEET NEGOTIATES A LOAN
XVI. TEHACHAPI HANK
XVII. IN LETTERS OF BLACK
XVIII. GREATER RAGTOWN
XIX. WHAT MADE THE WILD CAT
XX. DRUMMOND'S PASSENGER
XXI. LUCY SEES A PROSPECT
XXII. JERKLINE JO'S SURPRISE
XXIII. DRUMMOND WEAVES A DREAM
XXIV. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE LAKE
XXV. JO LOSES HER SUPPORT
XXVI. AT THE HAIRPIN CURVE
XXVII. UNDER THE DRIPPING TREES
XXVIII. FOUR-UP FOR HELP
XXIX. THE GENTLE WILD CAT RETURNS
XXX. HIRAM TAKES THE TRAIL
XXXI. A TALE OF THE DESERT'S DEAD
XXXII. LUCY PLANS A COUNTER-ATTACK
XXXIII. POCKETED
XXXIV. WHILE SPRING APPROACHED
XXXV. THE WAY OF LIFE

The She Boss

CHAPTER I

BEAR VALLEY'S DRONE

Spring was manifest in the vast big-timber country of Mendocino County.
"Uncle" Sebastian Burris felt the moist warmth of it oozing from the
slowly drying road as he trudged along. The