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Title: Man to Man

Author: Jackson Gregory

Release Date: July 29, 2006 [EBook #18933]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: The blazing heat was such that men and horses and steers
suffered terribly.]

MAN TO MAN

BY

JACKSON GREGORY

AUTHOR OF

JUDITH OF BLUE LAKE RANCH, THE BELLS OF SAN JUAN, SIX FEET FOUR, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY

J. G. SHEPHERD

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS -------- NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published October, 1920

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. STEVE DIVES INTO DEEP WATERS
II. MISS BLUE CLOAK KNOWS WHEN SHE'S BEAT
III. NEWS OF A LEGACY
IV. TERRY BEFORE BREAKFAST
V. HOW STEVE PACKARD CAME HOME
VI. BANK NOTES AND A BLIND MAN
VII. THE OLD MOUNTAIN LION COMES DOWN FROM THE NORTH
VIII. IN RED CREEK TOWN
IX. "IT'S MY FIGHT AND HIS. LET HIM GO!"
X. A RIDE WITH TERRY
XI. THE TEMPTING OF YELLOW BARBEE
XII. IN A DARK ROOM
XIII. AT THE LUMBER CAMP
XIV. THE MAN-BREAKER AT HOME
XV. AT THE FALLEN LOG
XVI. TERRY DEFIES BLENHAM
XVII. AND CALLS ON STEVE
XVIII. "IF HE KNOWS--DOES SHE?"
XIX. TERRY CONFRONTS HELL-FIRE PACKARD
XX. A GATE AND A RECORD SMASHED
XXI. PACKARD WRATH AND TEMPLE RAGE
XXII. THE HAND OF BLENHAM
XXIII. STEVE RIDES BY THE TEMPLE PLACE
XXIV. DOWN FROM THE SKY!
XXV. THE STAMPEDE
XXVI. YELLOW BARBEE KEEPS A PROMISE
XXVII. IN HONOR OF THE FAIRY QUEEN!

ILLUSTRATIONS

The blazing heat was such that men and horses and steers suffered
terribly . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The men about him and Packard withdrew this way and that leaving empty
floor space.

Terry's head, her face flushed rosily, her eyes never brighter, popped
up on one side of the log.

"Say it!" laughed Terry. "Well, I'm here. Came on business."

MAN TO MAN

CHAPTER I

STEVE DIVES INTO DEEP WATERS

Steve Packard's pulses quickened and a bright eagerness came into his
eyes as