CHAPTER I. Lafe Johnson Arrives at Lazy L Ranch CHAPTER II. Certain Complications Result CHAPTER III. Concerning a Baby's Wail CHAPTER IV. Out of a Job CHAPTER V. An Incipient Love Affair CHAPTER VI. Discomfiture of a Gunfighter CHAPTER VII. Johnson is Elected Sheriff of Badger CHAPTER VIII. A Feud and What Came of It CHAPTER IX. An Inquest and a Surprise CHAPTER X. A Journey To Satan's Kingdom CHAPTER XI. A Waitress to the Rescue CHAPTER XII. The Sheriff Settles a Conjugal Dispute CHAPTER XIII. And Hetty Comes to Badger to Live CHAPTER XIV. The Sheriff Ensnared CHAPTER XV. How He Won a Wife CHAPTER XVI. The Gunfighter Returns and Delays Wedding CHAPTER XVII. Johnson Meets a Friend of Hetty's CHAPTER XVIII. A Sacrifice and Its Punishment CHAPTER XIX. Buffalo Jim Gives Wise Counsel CHAPTER XX. The Sheriff Purges Town of Badger CHAPTER XXI. A Fight in the Dark CHAPTER XXII. Capture of Moffatt, the Gunman CHAPTER XXIII. The Wedding CHAPTER XXIV. The Bride is Lost CHAPTER XXV. Johnson Becomes Boss of the Anvil CHAPTER XXVI. Enters Trouble CHAPTER XXVII. A Clever Woman and a Misunderstanding CHAPTER XXVIII. Reconciliation—Mrs. Vining Experiences a Change of Heart CHAPTER XXIX. Lafe Helps a Deserter CHAPTER XXX. And Discovers Hetty's Brother CHAPTER XXXI. Great Expectations in Johnson Family CHAPTER XXXII. Birth of Lafe Johnson, Jr. CHAPTER XXXIII. Johnson Once More in Role of Sheriff CHAPTER XXXIV. He Arrests a Suspect CHAPTER XXXV. The Death Dice CHAPTER XXXVI. Responsibility Sits Heavily on Lafe CHAPTER XXXVII. But the Boss Again Proves His Mettle CHAPTER XXXVIII. How a Moffatt Henchman Was Ousted CHAPTER XXXIX. News from Buffalo Jim CHAPTER XL. He Arrives To Visit the Johnsons CHAPTER XLI. A Night Ride and Death of Buffalo Jim CHAPTER XLII. Middle Life CHAPTER XLIII. Moffatt Once More CHAPTER XLIV. The Duel in the Malpais CHAPTER XLV. The End