“... And the One-Way Trail is just the trail of Life. It’s chock full of pitfalls and stumbling blocks that make us cuss like mad. But it’s good for us to walk over it. There are no turnings or bye-paths, and no turning back. And maybe when we get to the end something will have been achieved in His scheme of things that our silly brains can’t grasp....”

PHILADELPHIA

GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

I.	A Gentleman Ranker	7
II.	A Shooting Match	18
III.	In Barnriff	28
IV.	Jim Proposes	36
V.	To the Red, Dancing Devil	53
VI.	Eve and Will	71
VII.	The Chicken-killing	78
VIII.	The “Boys” of the Village	86
IX.	A Woman’s Care	101
X.	An Evil Night	113
XI.	A Wedding-day in Barnriff	119
XII.	The Quest of Peter Blunt	135
XIII.	After One Year	146
XIV.	The Breaking Point	153
XV.	A “Party Call”	161
XVI.	Devil Driven	173
XVII.	The Working of the Public Mind	187
XVIII.	A Woman’s Instinct	195
XIX.	Branded	206
XX.	Approaching the Tribunal	221
XXI.	Inspiration	226
XXII.	The Vigilance Committee	238
XXIII.	Terror	252
XXIV.	For a Woman	265
XXV.	The Trail of the Rustlers	275
XXVI.	On the Little Bluff River	286
XXVII.	Annie	303
XXVIII.	Will	312
XXIX.	Jim	324
XXX.	Will Henderson Reaches the End	333
XXXI.	The Discomfiture of Smallbones	345
XXXII.	The Triumph of Smallbones	355
XXXIII.	After the Verdict	364
XXXIV.	The Truth	369
XXXV.	In the Shadow of the Gallows Tree	383
XXXVI.	The Passing of Elia	393
XXXVII.	Gold	401
XXXVIII.	On, Over the One-Way Trail	406

ILLUSTRATIONS

“There’s a great big God––just such a God as you and I have knelt to when we were bits of kiddies.”	Frontispiece
He sat glaring at the table, the smoke of his pipe clouding the still air of the neat kitchen.	156
Also he was gripping a heavy revolver in his hand.	288
“We’ve just come over to say that we, too, are going to hit the trail.”	410

THE ONE-WAY TRAIL

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