| FACING PAGE | | “Daintily her handsome horse set foot in the water.” | Frontispiece | | “‘They seem to be allfired sure of us.’” | 78 | | “Then, like a flash his hand fell to his holster, and it was empty.” | 90 | | “‘Turn around,’ said the Special Messenger.” | 176 | | “She dropped her sunbonnet—stooped to recover it.” | 216 | | “White-faced, desperate, she clung to him with the tenacity of a lynx.” | 220 | | “‘We was there—I know that, yes, an’ we had a fight.’” | 238 | | “‘Yes,’ she gasped, ‘the Special Messenger—noncombatant!’” | 258 |
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